What the Siege of Capitol Hill Teaches Us About Violence, Power, and American Exceptionalism
6 min readJan 8, 2021
Two days after its first homegrown beer hall putsch, the United States is still in both disbelief and denial. CNN’s Van Jones made ill-informed comparisons to Syria on Wednesday afternoon, and President-Elect Joe Biden tweeted, like many others had before him over the last four years, that America is “better” than this. But the truth…
