Barton gelman spent months reporting this month's cover story at the atlantic. Its titled, trumps next coup has already begun. In it, you argue january sixth was essentially a dry run for the next successful insurrection. We have not had a politically violent mass movement in this country for more than a hundred years. There are some 20 million trump supporters who believe both that biden is an illegitimate president and that violence is justified flat out to restore trump to white house.
One year later, the United States is still trying to wrap its head around what happened on January 6, 2021. (It was an insurrection.) This year, our democracy once again will be tested.
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