This was an all-out attempted coup. Mike Pence was taken out of the senate chamber something like 60 seconds before these terrorists, insurrectionists got into the Senate chamber. There are things that happened that day that if 60 seconds went differently, if a different door was opened, if a chair wasn`t barricaded in a certain way, we could have a completely different reality right now.
Ocasio-Cortez describes the events of January 6th as an attempted coup and reflects on how different actions could have changed the outcome.
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What Republicans do is that they try to make working people like you and me feel like we’re just one step outside of that club, that if we just work a little bit harder, maybe we’ll be a billionaire too.
I have a local city councilman that has this saying: ‘Woke 1 was crazy’… especially during Covid, I think that the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place.
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