What we witnessed yesterday was not dissent — it was disorder. They weren’t protestors — they were rioters, insurrectionists, and domestic terrorists. I wish we could say we couldn’t see it coming, but that isn’t true. We could.

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Like all of you, I’ve been feeling so many emotions since yesterday. I tried to put my thoughts down here:

With a tantruming child, one course of action is to ignore-to not validate the behavior. It's time to ignore the Toddler in Chief. #unfollowtrump

In case anyone is wondering, online these far right movements are claiming victory. Even if they were quickly evacuated by police, the photographs of them freely roaming the halls of Congress are powerful optics they will use to recruit thousands to their cause.

For the record this was the US Capitol during the BLM Protestors

I’m always interested in who the “we” is when people say “this is not who we are”

Today’s shameful assault on our democracy — anointed at the highest level of government — must not deter us from our responsibility to the Constitution. Tonight, we will move forward with the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s election.

Historian of coups and right-wing authoritarians here. If there are not severe consequences for every lawmaker & Trump govt official who backed this, every member of the Capitol Police who collaborated with them, this "strategy of disruption" will escalate in 2021