Vol. 39, No. 03
02/13/2023
1/6: Two Years Later
This essay, drawing from the most recent information, chronicles significant events that occurred before, during, and after January 6, 2021. ...
On the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot, Kamala Harris solemnly addressed the nation: “Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing.… December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021.”
Before a joint session of Congress, Joe Biden went further, characterizing the roughly five-hour long melee on January 6 as “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”
Two years have passed since the Capitol riot, and its memory continues to divide the nation. To Trump’s critics, the 6th was an aborted coup attempt, a failed insurrection. To the Right, scandalized by a season of disorder following the death of George Floyd, it was part and parcel of the winter of America’s discontent. Was January 6 a unique day of infamy in American history, or just another “mostly peaceful” protest that turned, regrettably, to criminal unrest?
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