'A Real Nightmare.' State Capitols Are Racing to Catch Up to the Far-Right Threat
'A Real Nightmare.' State Capitols Are Racing to Catch Up to the Far-Right Threat Time 1/14/2021 Vera Bergengruen © T.J. Kirkpatrick—The New York Times/Redux Armed National Guard troops gather in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 13, 2021. As a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters besieged the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, a few dozen protestors chanting similar slogans were breaching the gate of the governor’s mansion in Olympia, Wash., almost 3,000 miles to the west. The small crowd in Olympia, some of them armed, planted a large red s...