This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches from Moon of Alabama
In a blistering speech one day after pro-trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an unprecedented security breach, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said the perpetrators should be considered domestic terrorists . Don t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It s that basic. It s that simple.
That the incoming president declares a number of activists from the Is this a terrorist?
Those rabbles were in no way terrorists. They were not even a mob. Most of them were out-of-town rednecks who felt that they had been wronged. They wanted to express that. They were surprised when they found how easy it was to enter the Capitol and they apparently took more time to take pictures than to rearrange the furniture.