January 6 Wasn’t the End. It Was the Warning.
Five years ago this week, a mob breached the United States Capitol waving flags of grievance, grievance masquerading as patriotism, grievance fed by lies repeated until they felt like oxygen. January 6, 2021 is now filed away by some as an aberration, a bad day, an unfortunate moment that polite society would rather forget.
But that’s not how systems fai…


