All this time, I thought storming a building – any building (but then again, I could be thinking too much) – was an act of aggression, intimidation, and inherently violent.
…The riot — which followed a months-long disinformation campaign by former President Donald Trump and his allies, who claimed without evidence that the election had been stolen through fraud — lasted seven hours, during which approximately 10,000 people came onto Capitol grounds, with many engaging in violent clashes with officers trying to protect the building and lawmakers inside. At least 2,000 made it inside the Capitol building.
Violent clashes with police officers are bad. Weren’t we all agreed on that?
I really don’t see much difference other than numbers between people charging up the capital steps and what happened from sea to shining sea across the country on college campuses, from NYU and Columbia…
