.@RobinGivhan is a gem
“Fight for Trump!” they chanted. And they let Confederate flags fly on the Capitol steps & inside its hallowed halls, making it plain just how they define the man & the real Americans for whom they claim to be standing firm. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01…
“Fight for Trump!” they chanted. And they let Confederate flags fly on the Capitol steps & inside its hallowed halls, making it plain just how they define the man & the real Americans for whom they claim to be standing firm. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01…
Trump supporters did as they were told. 
The mostly White mob rampaged through the Capitol “looting & rioting & threatening — &, at least initially, being greeted like overzealous tourists compared with the way in which some law enforcement have beaten back Black Lives Matter & racial justice demonstrators.”
“[Biden] said the rioters did not represent who we are. But they are, at least in part, who we have become. They’re certainly part of who we’ve always been. They are Americans just as surely as are those who watch them in horror and disgust.”
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