Still think your camo is cool?
Many of the people in the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol wore camouflage outfits and military-like gear.
We should never forget what insurrectionists did at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. With President Trump’s encouragement, overwhelmingly white men and women stormed the building, hunted for elected officials, flew the Confederate flag, erected a gallows and killed a member of the Capitol Police.
We should also not forget what we saw, as they sported such disturbing and bizarre iconography —from KKK tattoos, Holocaust denial tee shirts and QAnon costumes to Pepe the Frog flags to crusader crosses- —that The New York Times published a “decoder.” More pernicious due to its very ordinariness, however, was their display of every type, style and color of “tactical” or paramilitary apparel and gear. In other words, the rioters dressed like many of us do when practicing yoga.