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Not the first violence at the U.S. Capitol, but we must make it the last An unemployed painter named Richard Lawrence attempted to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in January 1835. The U.S. Capitol was overrun January 6  by an angry, armed mob of insurrectionists carrying campaign banners with the name “Trump” displayed just as prominently as on any of his failed casinos. There is no doubt as to their motives;  they wanted to disrupt the counting of Electoral College votes by the Congress and the Senate, usually a plain vanilla enterprise unnoticed by either the public or the media.  In this era of Trump and the coronavirus, however, there is nothing either “plain” or “vanilla,” much as we might like to have it so.

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