To see it unspool — to watch the jumbled images ricochet, live, across the world's endless screens — was, as an American, a struggle to believe your eyes.
But there it was, in the capital city of the United States in early January 2021, a real-time breaking and entering the likes of which the republic has never seen.The U.S.
Capitol was overrun by violent supporters of Donald Trump, who exhorted them to march on the domed building as lawmakers inside carried out their Constitutional duty by certifying his electoral defeat.
The proceedings were quickly abandoned as the mob smashed windows, marched through hallways and rummaged through lawmakers’ desks.Fourteen days before Joe Biden is set to be inaugurated on this very site, elected.