Opinion
What I learned on Jan. 6, 2021: The system worked, and ‘Eternal vigilance continues to be freedom’s price.’
Supporters of President Donald Trump gather on the West side of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6. Rioters breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress was certifying the 2020 Electoral College votes. At least five people died as a result.(ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)
By Michael Judge
In the early evening of Jan. 6 a date, like Dec. 7, that will live in infamy I received a phone call from my 84-year-old mother, her voice full of worry and uncertainty, not for her children, six grandchildren or five great grandchildren, but for the nation she loves. “I tried to stop watching the riot at the Capitol,” she said, and “take a nap. But I couldn’t get the images out of my mind.”
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The Republican Party s official assault on the legitimacy of President-elect Joe Biden s victory is doomed to failure, but in one way the attempt has been clarifying: It has redefined the meaning of the term Radical Republican, in the process destroying the reputation of an organized political institution once known as the Party of Lincoln.
The term has its roots before the Civil War and lasted through the immediate postwar period. By calling themselves Radical Republicans, members of the party intended to distinguish themselves from the party s loose coalition of former Whigs, industrialists, moderates and disaffected Democrats. Despite being a minority within the post-Civil War GOP majority, the radical caucus was vocal and influential in passing the 14th Amendment and pushing for Black political participation.