How should we remember Jan. 6 now? | Opinion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : If you look at polling on many hot-button issues, including abortion and climate change, you'll note a disconnect between U.S. public opinion and government policy.
54% : This time, Trump won the popular vote. Jan. 6 was still a canary.
48% : While some civil libertarian guardrails were added in the wake of Edward Snowden's exposé in 2013, vestiges remain -- as do legal precedents that give presidents considerable executive authority under periods of "crisis.
41% : Far from a moment of national unity, the attacks on that day ushered in a patriotic fervor that stifled religious and political pluralism and ran roughshod over civil liberties.
40% : In the years since, "Jan. 6" has become a journalistic and political shorthand for threats to "democracy" by Trump and his ilk.
36% : According to the narrative proffered by right-wing media, Trump and the hundreds of other riot participants who faced criminal charges for their activities that day did nothing wrong.
19% : " When Trump takes power later this month, this already extant and well-established system of state repression will be subjected to his authoritarian whims.
17% : Remembering that day has meant remaining cognizant of these vulnerabilities while taking solace in the failure of Trump and his mob to prevent a Biden presidency.
7% : That day, thousands of Trump supporters converged on Washington, D.C., to "Stop the Steal," a slogan based on an unfounded conspiracy theory that the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which Donald Trump lost, had been riddled with fraud.

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