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30. The Recent Past | THE AMERICAN YAWP

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Supporters of defeated U.S. President Donald Trump cheer the breaching of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Via Wikimedia. *The American Yawp is an evolving, collaborative text. Please click here to improve this chapter.* The U.S. Capitol was stormed on January 6, 2021. Thousands of right-wing protestors, fueled by an onslaught of lies and fabrications and conspiracy theories surrounding the November 2020 elections, rallied that morning in front of the White House to “Stop the Steal.” Repeating a familiar litany of lies and distortions, the sitting president of the United States then urged them to march on the Capitol and stop the certification of the November electoral vote. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness,” he said. “Fight like hell,” he said. “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”1 And so they did. They marched on the capitol, armed themselves with metal pipes, baseball bats, hockey sticks, pepper spray, stun guns, and flag p

Supporters of defeated U.S. President Donald Trump cheer the breaching of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Via Wikimedia . *The American Yawp is an evolving, collaborative text. Please click here to improve this chapter.* I. Introduction II. American Politics before September 11, 2001 III. September 11 and the War on Terror IV. The End of the Bush Years V. The Great Recession VI. The Obama Years VII. Stagnation VIII. American Carnage IX. The Pandemic X. New Horizons IX. Conclusion X. Primary Sources XI. Reference Material I. Introduction The U.S. Capitol was stormed on January 6, 2021. Tho

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