(Pixabay) The hour is late.
On April 15, 1943, tens of millions of Americans sat down at a broad mahogany desk or, many more of them, at a rickety kitchen table, and wrote out checks to the federal government. Most of those Americans wrote checks in the four or five figures, a few of the wealthiest in the six figures.
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That day was a bonding moment for a chesty, prosperous nation, a moment when citizens from all stations came together and divvied up the bill for public services. It was also a republicanizing civic experience. Every taxpaying American, from the lawn guy to the industrial mogul, found the same two questions at the tip of his tongue. The first was, “Wow! How did my tax bill get so high?” And the second was, “Wow! What did I get for all of that money?” Both of those questions were potent, small-r republican questions. April 15, even more than religious holidays or the Fourth of July, had become the most conservative day of the cal
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At noon, the president urged thousands of his supporters to march on the Capitol. The result was hours of violence and chaos
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But at just before 3pm local time on Wednesday, the 35-year-old – a lover of her husband, her dog and above all her country – had tried to smash through a glass door that led into the congressional chambers, the heart of American democracy.
The doors were barricaded from the inside, but Ms Babbitt attempted to scramble through the broken window. Mobile phone video footage showed, in horrifying detail, the moment that a shot fired by a plain clothes police officer rang out and she fell backwards. Despite attempts to save her, she died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
The U.S. Capitol was declared secure on Wednesday evening, about four hours after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the building and forced debate on Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College to be suspended.
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