Long after Trump takes his place among history’s reviled strongmen, Caroline Edwards’ courage will be celebrated and rememberedEvery Republican who’s ever denied, or tried to minimize, the hideously destructive reality of the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, should be required to sit and listen to the testimony of Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards. And if it takes strapping them into a chair, and propping their eyelids open, “A Clockwork Orange” style, then so be it. “I couldn’t believe my eyes, Edwards, 31, said, according to the Washington Post. “I would like to think that he would be proud of me,” Edwards continued. John L. Micek is the editor-in-chief of the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, which first published this essay.

Source: Washington Post June 13, 2022 20:20 UTC