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title="Government">government</a> or removal of an existing government from power, usually through violent means. Typically, it is an illegal, <a href="/wiki/Unconstitutional" class="mw-redirect" title="Unconstitutional">unconstitutional</a> seizure of power by a <a href="/wiki/Political_party" class="mw-redirect" title="Political party">political faction</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Military" title="Military">military</a>, or a <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictator</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coup_vs_Revolution.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Coup_vs_Revolution.jpg/220px-Coup_vs_Revolution.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Coup_vs_Revolution.jpg/330px-Coup_vs_Revolution.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Coup_vs_Revolution.jpg/440px-Coup_vs_Revolution.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2644" data-file-height="1601" /></a><figcaption> A coup d 'état... is the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group (usually military or paramilitary). According to Oxford University, a coup differs from a <a href="/wiki/Revolution" title="Revolution">revolution</a>, in which large numbers of people work for basic social, economic and political change... ~ Kanisa George</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotations">Quotations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Organizers fear that <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a> is prepping the ground for a de facto coup. But they also hope that he can be headed off by a massive wave of aroused and empowered opposition. There is, after all, a growing public awareness of the existential threat to the country’s <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>, with a drumbeat of warnings <ul><li>Is Trump Planning a Coup d’État? <a href="/wiki/Sasha_Abramsky" title="Sasha Abramsky">Sasha Abramsky</a>, <i>The Nation</i>, (7 September 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Non_violence_sculpture_by_carl_fredrik_reutersward_malmo_sweden.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Non_violence_sculpture_by_carl_fredrik_reutersward_malmo_sweden.jpg/220px-Non_violence_sculpture_by_carl_fredrik_reutersward_malmo_sweden.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Non_violence_sculpture_by_carl_fredrik_reutersward_malmo_sweden.jpg/330px-Non_violence_sculpture_by_carl_fredrik_reutersward_malmo_sweden.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Non_violence_sculpture_by_carl_fredrik_reutersward_malmo_sweden.jpg/440px-Non_violence_sculpture_by_carl_fredrik_reutersward_malmo_sweden.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><b>Historically, whichever side resorts to violence the most tends to lose.</b> In a moment of uncertainty, people pick the side that promises maximum stability, respects democratic norms and appears to be the safer bet. ~ Daniel Hunter/Waging<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonViolence" class="extiw" title="w:NonViolence">NonViolence</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Goddess_of_justice.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Goddess_of_justice.jpg/220px-Goddess_of_justice.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Goddess_of_justice.jpg/330px-Goddess_of_justice.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Goddess_of_justice.jpg/440px-Goddess_of_justice.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>For mass movements to succeed against coups, they should refuse to do violence to the other side. ~ Daniel Hunter/Waging<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonViolence" class="extiw" title="w:NonViolence">NonViolence</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The persistence into the <a href="/wiki/20th_century" title="20th century">twentieth century</a> of a specific institutional pattern inimical to growth in <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> and <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a> is well illustrated by the fact that, just as in the <a href="/wiki/19th_century" title="19th century">nineteenth century</a>, the pattern generated economic stagnation and political instability, civil wars and coups, as groups struggled for the benefits of power. <a href="/wiki/Porfirio_D%C3%ADaz" title="Porfirio Díaz">Díaz</a> finally lost power to revolutionary forces in 1910. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Revolution" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Mexican Revolution">Mexican Revolution</a> was followed by others in <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_National_Revolution" class="extiw" title="w:Bolivian National Revolution">1952</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Cuban Revolution">1959</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Revolution" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nicaraguan Revolution">1979</a>. Meanwhile, sustained civil wars raged in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian_Civil_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Colombian Civil War">Colombia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_Civil_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Salvadoran Civil War">El Salvador</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Civil_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Guatemalan Civil War">Guatemala</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>. Expropriation or the threat of expropriation of assets continued apace, with mass <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/land_reform" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:land reform">agrarian reforms</a> (or attempted reforms) in <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Guatemala">Guatemala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>. <a href="/wiki/Revolution" title="Revolution">Revolutions</a>, expropriations, and political instability came along with military governments and various types of <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictatorships</a>. Though there was also a gradual drift toward greater political rights, it was only in the 1990s that most Latin American countries <a href="/wiki/Democratization" title="Democratization">became democracies</a>, and even then they remain mired in instability. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daron_Acemoglu" class="extiw" title="w:Daron Acemoglu">Daron Acemoglu</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Robinson" class="extiw" title="w:James A. Robinson">James A. Robinson</a>, <i>Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Poverty, and Prosperity</i> (2012)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a> has descended into a nightmare of political repression and <a href="/wiki/Race" class="mw-disambig" title="Race">racist</a> state violence since the democratically elected government of <a href="/wiki/Evo_Morales" title="Evo Morales">Evo Morales</a> was overthrown by the military on 10 November last year. That month was the second-deadliest in terms of civilian deaths caused by state forces since Bolivia became a democracy nearly 40 years ago... <a href="/wiki/Evo_Morales" title="Evo Morales">Morales</a>' government was able to reduce poverty by 42% and extreme poverty by 60%... The November coup was led by a <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">white</a> and mestizo elite with a history of <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a>, seeking to revert state power to the people who had monopolised it before Morales’ election in 2005. The racist nature of the state violence... all of the victims of the two biggest massacres committed by state forces after the coup were indigenous. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weisbrot" class="extiw" title="w:Mark Weisbrot">Mark Weisbrot</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/18/silence-us-backed-coup-evo-morales-bolivia-american-states">Silence reigns on the US-backed coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia, <i>The Guardian</i></a>, (18 September 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What has received even less attention is the role of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" class="extiw" title="w:Organization of American States">Organization of American States (OAS)</a> (with headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>) in the destruction of Bolivia’s democracy last November. <b>The wheels of justice grind much too slowly in the aftermath of US-backed coups.</b> And the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Donald_Trump" title="Presidency of Donald Trump">Trump administration</a>’s support has been overt: the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">White House</a> promoted the “fraud” narrative, and its <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">Orwellian</a> statement following the <a href="/wiki/Coup" class="mw-redirect" title="Coup">coup</a> praised it: “Morales’s departure preserves democracy and paves the way for the Bolivian people to have their voices heard.” According to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" class="extiw" title="w:Los Angeles Times"><i>Los Angeles Times</i></a>: “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Trujillo" class="extiw" title="w:Carlos Trujillo">Carlos Trujillo</a>, the US ambassador to the OAS, had steered the group’s election-monitoring team to report widespread fraud and pushed the Trump administration to support the ouster of Morales.” <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weisbrot" class="extiw" title="w:Mark Weisbrot">Mark Weisbrot</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/18/silence-us-backed-coup-evo-morales-bolivia-american-states">Silence reigns on the US-backed coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia, <i>The Guardian</i></a>, (18 September 2020)</li></ul></li> <li>...These guidelines are drawn from the wide body of experience and evidence from the many countries that have experienced a coup since <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>...</li></ul> <ol><li>Don’t expect results election night...<a href="/wiki/Elections" title="Elections">ballots</a> may not be counted until days or weeks after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_(United_States)" class="extiw" title="w:Election Day (United States)">Election Day</a>... trumped up claims of <a href="/wiki/Electoral_fraud" title="Electoral fraud">fraudulent ballots</a> may cause a wayward <a href="/wiki/Attorney_general" title="Attorney general">attorney general</a>..to try halting counts...</li> <li>Do call it a coup. One reason to use the language of a coup is that people know it’s wrong and a violation of Democratic norms... We have to be ready to declare loudly ...This is a coup... People who do power grabs always claim they’re doing it to save democracy...</li> <li>Know that coups have been stopped by regular folks. Coup attempts have happened all over the world, and over half have failed...</li> <li>Be ready to act that defeat coups do so in days...</li> <li>Focus on widely shared democratic values, not on individuals. ...Coups are not a time to just watch and wait until “someone else” figures it out...</li> <li>Convince people not to freeze or just go along... In all the research on preventing coups, there’s one common theme: People stop doing what the coup plotters tell them to do.</li> <li>Commit to actions that represent <b><a href="/wiki/Rule_of_law" title="Rule of law">rule of law</a>, stability and <a href="/wiki/Nonviolence" title="Nonviolence">nonviolence</a>...</b> <b>For mass movements to succeed against coups, they should refuse to do violence to the other side.</b> It is really a fight for legitimacy... that uncertain center has to be convinced that “we” represent stability and “the coup plotters” represent hostility to the democratic norms...<b>Historically, whichever side resorts to violence the most tends to lose. In a moment of uncertainty, people pick the side that promises maximum stability, respects democratic norms and appears to be the safer bet. It’s a contest of who can be the most legitimate.</b></li> <li>Yes, a coup can happen in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. It may be hard to imagine...</li> <li>Center in calm, not fear. ... Let’s aim for calm and avoid hyperbole. Be a reliable source by double-checking rumors and spreading high-quality facts... Breathe deeply....</li> <li>Prepare to deter a coup before the election.</li></ol> <dl><dd><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/09/10-things-you-need-to-know-to-stop-a-coup/">10 things you need to know to stop a coup, Daniel Hunter, <i>Waging Nonviolence</i></a> ( 19 September 2020)</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>The coups, <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">wars</a> and <a href="/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide">slaughters</a> to instill and maintain pro-corporate regimes have never been treated as <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalist</a> crimes but have instead been written off as the excess of overzealous <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictators</a>, as hot fronts in the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>, and now of the <a href="/wiki/War_on_terror" title="War on terror">War on Terror</a>. If the most committed opponents of the corporatist economic model are systematically eliminated, whether in <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1970s" title="1970s">seventies</a> or in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> today, that suppression is explained... almost never as the fight for the advancement of pure capitalism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naomi_Klein" title="Naomi Klein">Naomi Klein</a>, <i>The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism</i> (2007)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The death of <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg" title="Ruth Bader Ginsburg">Ginsburg</a> and quick replacement of another <a href="/wiki/Far-right_politics" title="Far-right politics">ultra conservative</a> to <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">SCOTUS</a> has big implications for <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">November’s election</a>: it strengthens Trump’s strategy... create the public impression mail in voting is fraudulent and the basis for stopping the counting of mail ballots... he’ll raise the ‘fraudulent’ voting claim, get <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Barr" class="extiw" title="w:William P. Barr">Attorney General Barr</a> to file injunctions to stop the vote count of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/postal_voting" class="extiw" title="w:postal voting">mail in ballots</a>, and push to the Supreme Court the approval to stop the vote count. Since the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> and <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a> conventions in August I have been following and commenting on <b>the unfolding of Trump’s strategy to engineer a legal de facto coup d’etat surrounding the November 3 elections... as he has publicly declared in his campaign speeches, he’s planning not only to win in November but is considering, as he put, “four more years after that, and maybe even four more, we’ll see”. In lock-step, his Attorney General, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Barr" class="extiw" title="w:William P. Barr">Bill Barr</a>, has also publicly declared that protestors (including those protesting a future coup no doubt) should be considered “<a href="/wiki/Treason" title="Treason">treasonous</a>” and prosecuted under the sedition acts. For Trump too, protestors are “<a href="/wiki/Insurrection" title="Insurrection">insurrectionists</a>”, which means terrorists and ‘enemy combatants’ under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act" class="extiw" title="w:Patriot Act">Patriot Act</a>... So much for the <a href="/wiki/Bill_of_Rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill of Rights">Bill of Rights</a> in a post November USA world!</b> <ul><li>Jack Rasmus, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/22/ginsburgs-death-and-trumps-emerging-legal-coup-detat/">Ginsburg’s Death and Trump’s Emerging Legal Coup D’Etat</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CounterPunch" class="extiw" title="w:CounterPunch"><i>CounterPunch</i></a> (22 September 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_instability" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Political instability">Political instability</a> is manifesting itself in <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a> as a chronic symptom of the <a href="/wiki/Underdeveloped_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Underdeveloped countries">underdevelopment</a> of <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">political life</a> within the <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialist</a> context. Military coups have followed one after the other, usually meaning nothing to the mass of the people, and sometimes representing a reactionary reversal of the efforts at national liberation. This trend was well exemplified in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Latin_America" class="extiw" title="w:History of Latin America">Latin American history</a>, so that its appearance in <a href="/wiki/Neocolonialism" title="Neocolonialism">neo-colonial</a> <a href="/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnam</a> or in neo-colonial Africa is not at all surprising. If economic power is centered outside national African boundaries, then political and military power in any real sense is also centered outside until, and unless, the masses of <a href="/wiki/Peasant" title="Peasant">peasants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">workers</a> are mobilized to offer an alternative to the system of sham political independence. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Rodney" title="Walter Rodney">Walter Rodney</a>, <i>How Europe Underdeveloped Africa</i> (1972), p. 27</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The United States presidential campaign is being transformed into a coup d’état by <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, who has declared that he will not accept the results of any vote that goes against him. At a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House" class="extiw" title="w:White House">White House</a> press conference Wednesday evening, Trump was asked whether he would “commit here today for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_transfer_of_power" class="extiw" title="w:Peaceful transfer of power">peaceful transfer of power</a> after the election.” He replied: “We’re going to have to see what happens. You know, I have been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster.” When his questioner persisted, Trump said, “You’ll have a very peaceful trans—there won’t be a transfer frankly. There will be a continuation.”</b> Trump’s determination to rapidly appoint <a href="/wiki/Amy_Coney_Barrett" title="Amy Coney Barrett">a new Supreme Court justice</a> to fill the seat left by <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg" title="Ruth Bader Ginsburg">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a>’s death is a critical element of the unfolding criminal conspiracy. Trump intends to stack the Supreme Court with lackeys who will rubber stamp his repudiation of the election results. “I think this [the election] will end up in the Supreme Court, and I think it’s very important that we have nine justices,” Trump said at the news conference. That the preparations for an overthrow of the Constitution are well advanced is now widely acknowledged. <ul><li>Joseph Kishore and David North, Trump’s coup d’état election, <i>WSWS,</i> (24 September 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>President Trump's Wednesday refusal to commit to a peaceful transition of power should he lose the election has exacerbated all the worries raised by his trolling about serving an unconstitutional third term... I understand fears about dissolution of democratic norms and the apparently nonexistent floor in the cravenness of <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> officials in Trump's thrall. But <b>Trump lacks two necessary things for the coup attempt some of his critics anticipate, and those deficiencies reassure me greatly... The first is <a href="/wiki/Competence" title="Competence">competence</a>.</b> As my colleague <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Linker" class="extiw" title="w:Damon Linker">Damon Linker</a> has ably argued, the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">president</a> is very good at exercising rhetorical power, but he is very bad at actually doing things, because he is deeply incompetent. He cannot plan. He certainly cannot keep a secret or keep his story straight... <b>The second is the absolute loyalty of the <a href="/wiki/Military" title="Military">military</a></b> Trump would need to retain the physical seat of power. If he had strong support among active-duty service members, it would still be quite a leap to say they'd help make him a <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictator</a>. But Trump doesn't even net a positive approval rating from <a href="/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">U.S. forces</a> anymore. <ul><li>Bonnie Kristian, in Don't worry: The military dislikes Trump too much to help him steal the election, <i>The Week</i>, (25 September 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A coup d 'état, is the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a> by a small group (usually military or paramilitary). According to <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford University</a>, a coup differs from a <a href="/wiki/Revolution" title="Revolution">revolution</a>, in which large numbers of people work for basic social, economic and political change... many scholars consider a coup to succeed when the usurpers seize and hold power for at least seven days... Patrick McGowan, an accomplished researcher on coups in Africa, proffers that political leaders ejection from power, through unmistakably unconstitutional means, are mainly assisted by the army either on their own or in conjunction with civilian elites such as civil servants and <a href="/wiki/Politicians" title="Politicians">politicians</a>. Researchers add that an essential element of a successful coup is the process of infiltration and subversion. This ensures that a small but critical part of the security forces is totally subverted, while much of the rest is temporarily neutralised. While a variety of mechanisms exist through which coups might pave the way for <a href="/wiki/Democratization" title="Democratization">democratisation</a>, there are still widespread views against it. For starters, coups in democratic societies aren't particularly welcomed because of the stain it places on democracy. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Geddes" class="extiw" title="w:Barbara Geddes">Barbara Geddes</a> refer to this as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding" class="extiw" title="w:Democratic backsliding">democratic backsliding</a>," indicative of a democratic breakdown. <ul><li>Kanisa George, Coups and democracy, <i>Trinidad and Tobago Newsday (</i>30 September 2020)</li></ul></li> <li>Here’s what we know: <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress</a> was not prepared on <a href="/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_attack" title="2021 United States Capitol attack">January 6th</a>. We weren’t prepared because we never imagined this could happen: an attack, by our own people, fostered and encouraged by those granted power through the very system they sought to overturn. That is a lesson, not a <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories" title="Conspiracy theories">conspiracy theory</a> or counter-narrative. Some have concocted a counternarrative to discredit this process on the grounds we didn’t launch a similar investigation into the urban <a href="/wiki/Riot" title="Riot">riots</a> and <a href="/wiki/Looting" title="Looting">looting</a> last summer. Mr. Chairman, I was called on to serve during the summer riots as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_National_Guard" class="extiw" title="w:United States Air National Guard">Air National Guardsman</a>. I condemned those riots and the destruction of property that resulted. But not once did I ever feel that the future of self-government was threatened like I did on January 6th. 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