The days since last Wednesday’s insurrection against the legislative branch of the United States have felt extremely odd and quite out of keeping with much of the past four years.
Some of the peculiar sensation can be traced to fear flowing from the realization that thousands of our fellow citizens were so convinced of a lie (that the presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump) that they traveled all the way to the nation’s capital for the express purpose of attacking the citadel of American democracy.
Some of it may also follow from a new-found feeling of resolution — a conviction that no matter how futile
