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Episode 1: Riot at the Gates (Again)

Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News

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The History of January 6, 2021

Yale professor Alice Kaplan describes her own experience on January 6, 2021. She says her mind went immediately to the February 6, 1934 attack on the Parliament in France. Jonathan Katz, who wrote the Smedley Butler book, Gangsters of Capitalism, said he also felt like he was watching some kind of horrible replay. Some people feel that taking January 6th too seriously means you have no faith in American institutions.

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