She was also the president of PEN AmericaLloyd Green: ‘The US careens through a cold Civil War’The select committee’s prime time hearing informed but likely failed to persuade. Video and testimony reinforced what we already knew: that Donald Trump sought to violently overturn and avenge his election loss. Meanwhile, her reedy-voiced husband derided Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, as “whining”. The almost entirely white mob storming the halls of Congress operated squarely within a tradition of white mob terrorism that has deeply shaped specific parts of the country, and the whole of the nation itself. Those terrorists destroyed Wilmington’s “Fusion” Black and white government, replacing it with a white, racist, autocratic, Jim Crow government.

Source: The Guardian June 11, 2022 02:22 UTC