As Talleyrand famously said after Napoleon’s international kidnap and subsequent execution of the royalist Duc d’Enghein, “it was worse than a crime, it was a mistake.”
The unknown number (from a few dozen to a few hundred) pro-Trump protesters who tussled with the police, stormed the Capitol building and caused property damage in the chambers and offices achieved nothing but giving a monumental free kick to the left.
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