A Reflection of America in the Rioters
After a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building to prevent lawmakers from certifying the results of the presidential election, hundreds of members of Congress were quick to remind people watching the chaos unfold that Americans are better than the thugs who don't represent their shared values or understand what the country really stands for.
"Let me be very clear," President-elect Joe Biden said Wednesday. "The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect the true America."
"This is not who we are."
But as the smoke cleared, the glass from the smashed doors and windows was swept away and thousands of photos and videos started being scrutinized, it soon became clear that – while the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol included white nationalists carrying Confederate flags, anti-Semites wearing clothes suggesting not enough Jews were killed during the Holocaust, QAnon conspiracy theorists and members of the Proud Boys – they were also, by and large, as American as apple pie.
They were teachers and truck drivers. They were doctors, farmers, CEOs, lawyers and law enforcement officers. They were heads of local Republican committees and elected officials – mayors, more than a dozen state legislators and a newly minted member of Congress.
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I don't think it's so much a reflection of America but a reflection of today's Republican party. Trump just made them feel it's okay to express the fascsist point of view.