Partisanship overshadows sombre commemorations as insurrection becomes another wedge in a split nation
They thought it couldn’t happen here. But so did many other nations before America.
Walking the halls of the snowbound US Capitol on Thursday afternoon, a year to the hour since it was breached by a fascist impulse, it was hard to imagine the mob running riot – pummeling police, flaunting the Confederate flag and abusing a Black officer with the n-word.
