On the recordJuly 6, 2021
Not even during the civil war did insurrectionists breach our Capitol, the citadel of our democracy. But six months ago today insurrectionists did. They launched a violent and deadly assault on the People’s House, the representatives and the Capitol Police sworn to protect them as the Congress carried out the sacred ritual of our republic and certify the Electoral College vote. This was not dissent. It was disorder. It posed an existential crisis and a test of whether our democracy could survive.
