NEW YEAR, SAME OLD SHTICK… PASSING LAWS IS A FORM OF INSURRECTION, NYT SCREECHES: Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now
In short, the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends. No self-governing society can survive such a threat by denying that it exists. Rather, survival depends on looking back and forward at the same time.