With high profile congressional inquests into shadowy conspiracies, media panics, and boring White House events turning into embarrassing fodder for late night comedians — the stage was set for an almost banal week in Washington DC — but a brazen attack on Republican congressmen in Alexandria, Virginia, changed all that. While most members of Congress quickly rallied around their colleagues, plenty of citizens and a good number of media types were soon leveraging the tragedy to support their own philosophical convictions.
Somewhat prescient dispatch from five years ago!
Discussion about the insane possibility of MAGA supporters violently rushing the Capitol if Trump didn't win in 2016?
Trump as a Julius Caesar, betrayed by his closest advisors? Look to the January 6 hearings, maybe.
Mass shooting in Alexandria and the jumping to political narratives?
It's all here!