Don't Erase What Happened at the Capitol
The Atlantic The building should resemble the United States, a still-broken country in need of fixing. February 13, 2021 Jim Lo Scalzo /Getty On the evening of February 5, as Representative Andy Kim of New Jersey retraced the steps he’d taken nearly one month earlier, hours after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, he saw little remaining evidence of destruction. The shattered glass where Ashli Babbitt was shot outside the Speaker’s Lobby? Repaired. The statues defaced by cigarette butts? Fixed. The broken windows? Boarded up. The benches reduced to shards? Removed. But when he walked b...
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