Four years on, and the events of Jan. 6, 2021 continue to reverberate. For just a few hours on that day, politicians on all sides were united in condemnation of the rioters who smashed their way into the United States Capitol in a failed bid to keep Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election.
Then, depressingly, that unity fractured into partisan bickering. What seemed like the depressing end to the saga came earlier this year, with Trump pardoning those imprisoned for their role in the attack. Now there’s a ridiculous little cherry on top of that, as it’s just been confirmed that the government will pay $5 million to the family of shot rioter Ashli Babbitt.
