The violence on January 6th was simply the latest chapter in this long history of domestic extremism in America.
Patrick Leahy: “The violence on January 6th was simply the latest chapter in this long history of domestic extremism in America.”
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Leahy describes the January 6th events as part of a historical pattern of extremism.
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