Among the Insurrectionists at the Capitol - By Luke Mogelson
A Reporter’s Footage from Inside the Capitol Siege https://t.co/YhPpmxuPKX via @NewYorker — Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) January 18, 2021 A Reporter’s Footage from Inside the Capitol Siege Luke Mogelson followed Trump supporters as they forced their way into the Senate chamber, using his phone’s camera as a reporter’s notebook. newyorker.com Among the Insurrectionists at the Capitol By the end of President Donald Trump’s crusade against American democracy—after a relentless deployment of propaganda, demagoguery, intimidation, and fearmongering aimed at persuading as many Americans as possible to repudiate their country’s foundational principles—a single word sufficed to nudge his most fanatical supporters into open insurrection. Thousands of them had assembled on the Mall, in Washington, D.C., on the morning of January 6th, to hear Trump address them from a stage outside the White House. From where I stood, at the foot of the Washington Monument, you had to strain to see his ima
