The Wages of Our Recklessness - Noah Rothman, Commentary Magazine
The Wages of Our Recklessness On January 6, 2021, the president of the United States fomented a violent insurrection against the federal government. On this point, the semantics matter. This was not a coup d’etat, the definition of which is an organized effort to remove the existing government, in which all the levers of governmental power are seized by force. Nor was this a mere protest. No sane observer could equate what happened yesterday with a public demonstration of dissent which, though not necessarily law-abiding, is nevertheless a peaceful display. This was an organized, terroristi...
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