Enough with the Lies

We’ve Been Through So Much. Can We at Least Be Done with Bullshit?

Wed Apr 14, 2021 | 05:25pm

It was January 6, and I stood watching my television screen with both hands over my mouth. My gut was roiling. My body shivered with random surges of fight-or-flight adrenaline as a flag-waving mob tried to lay siege to our center of government. 

How can this be happening? I kept saying. Is this … real?? The answer, of course, was yes. And more importantly: no. 

But by day’s end, I had come to a realization even more frightening than the makeshift gallows erected on the Capitol lawn: This could just as well have been us.

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