We Saw Insurrection Coming. What Do We Do Now?
The writing was on the wall. We must ensure it never happens again.
On the evening of January 3rd, I sat down to pen a letter to Senator Mitt Romney of Utah. Just that evening I had learned of a discrete set of plans by members of his caucus, the Republican caucus, to object to the certification of the Electoral College vote which had occurred on December 14th.
I had known that some of Romney’s fellow senators and representatives might take umbrage with what they unduly see as a rigged process (Sen. Tommy Tuberville had been among the first to make such declarations) but I was frankly shocked by the numbers that the anti-certification movement was marshaling. By some counts, as many as 14 senators and 120 representatives were prepared to perpetuate the lie, roundly rejected by courts and election commissions and Republicans and Democrats alike, that Donald Trump was the rightful winner of the November 3rd presidential election.
I spent a few days revising my letter, and finally satisfied I marched down to my local post office in the wee morning hours of January 6th to mail it to Sen. Romney’s Washington office.
Little did I know that some 14 hours later that very office would be ransacked in the worst anti-democratic display of political…
