One Year Later: Our Democracy in Danger
A year after the Insurrection, the country remains firmly divided on what actually happened that day.
Last January 7th, the whole world thought that Trump and his conspiracy theories finally took it a step too far; Trump was banned from Twitter and conservative social media site Parler went offline. The grim reality of the situation is that right-wing radicalism has only been ramping up since—30 percent of Americans still believe that "there is solid evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election." The Republican Party itself has seen a unified push to whitewash the Jan. 6 Insurrection and drive their radical agenda.
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We Are Living Through a Democratic Emergency, The Atlantic | 1/5/2022
By Kate Guarino
The precedent set by the Big Lie of an unlawful election that installed an illegal president is dangerous. It allows people to believe that they can and deserve to break the rules in order to win next time. "The myth of something stolen from us that gives us the right to cheat is something we’ve seen in autocratic regimes in the past."
Video: Never-before-seen January 6 footage from our photographer, Los Angeles Times | 1/4/2022
New footage of the chaos that ensued on the ground at the Capitol as LA Times Photographer Kent Nishimura followed the crowed of protesters coming from Trump's Ellipse rally, just south of the White House.