This was going to be an editorial about building bridges.
This space was intended for platitudes about setting aside our differences amid a contentious election season, making a clean slate and moving forward as one country, one people.
Wednesday changed that.
Protesters turned rioters turned criminals stormed the U.S. Capitol and created a scene that many of us likely thought impossible: Wannabe “patriots” wandering the halls of Congress, rifling through desks, despoiling justice, vandalizing constitutional norms.
This scene should have stayed in Iraq or Afghanistan — not the greatest country on the planet. Not in our house.
Wednesday’s despicable acts aren’t just tied to a vague belief that voter fraud was perpetuated in November on a massive scale. Despite screeds from the right, there’s no evidence or credible witnesses for a judge to consider. If there were, they’d have seen it by now.