I think it has a lot to do with the spectacle of it. It really was unprecedented seeing the US capitol get "occupied," but like it wasn't a real insurgency, there was no actual millitary support. The government never really lost control. Everything was basically fine, but the imagery was striking, so it basically became 9/11 in the liberal popular imagination.
I think it has a lot to do with the spectacle of it. It really was unprecedented seeing the US capitol get "occupied," but like it wasn't a real insurgency, there was no actual millitary support. The government never really lost control. Everything was basically fine, but the imagery was striking, so it basically became 9/11 in the liberal popular imagination.
90% of the american political experience post-1945 is looking at things on a screen in a cornfield