âI was shaking. And I didnât want my kids to see me.â A tumultuous week upends American politics â and our sense of whatâs possible. By David Scharfenberg Globe Staff,Updated January 8, 2021, 11:56 a.m. Email to a Friend Jon Ossoff (left) and the Rev. Raphael Warnock waved after a campaign event with President-elect Joe Biden in Atlanta on Monday.Doug Mills/NYT At 3:30 on Wednesday afternoon, my 9- and 12-year-old daughters came bounding upstairs. They wanted to turn on the television. America was coming apart. I watched with them for a few minutes. The mob swarming the Capitol. The âF--- Bidenâ flag rippling in the breeze.