Republicans’ Attempted Coup Turns Violent. Will They Be Held to Account?

keith salkowski
9 min readJan 7, 2021

Democrats must not repeat the mistakes of Lincoln and Republicans post-Civil War… but they probably will.

Protesters, rioters, Trump supporters, insurrectionists, idiots, morons, thugs, lemmings… there are many words that accurately describe the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

That their actions were violent is beyond debate. That they committed countless criminal acts, including trespass, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, failure to obey law…

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