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After last week’s storming of the US Capitol by a right-wing mob resembling an adult Halloween party gone awry (bring your own fur and anti-Semitism), talk is again resurfacing about expanding the War on Terror. On Thursday,
The Wall Street Journalreported that President-elect Joe Biden will “make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism,” noting that “he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them.”
A coup? Terrorism? Experts ponder how to define chaos at U.S. Capitol Zahra Ahmad and Garret Ellison, mlive.com
The violent mob that tried to take over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 resulted in a historical American event, leaving legal and political experts to debate what exactly to call it.
Some people were there to protest the transition of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Others were there to commit criminal acts, like vandalism and domestic terrorism, according to Michigan law experts and politicians.
There is an ongoing debate among experts over whether the riot that broke out at the Capitol is a coup or whether the people who participated in breaching the building are considered terrorists, said Josh Pasek, an associate professor of communication and a faculty associate at the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan.