January 6 was a victory

After January 6, AOC posted a video detailing her experience being hunted by domestic terrorists in the U.S. Capitol.

January 6 is a date that seems slated to live not in infamy but in ambiguity. It shouldn’t be this way.

Fifty-five percent of Americans see that day’s violent riot at the Capitol as “an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten.” A minority consider it an unsexy Burning Man, an orgy of far-right cosplay that doesn’t mean much. 

And then there are the wingnuts who see it as a valiant uprising by a noble paramilitary trying to take back its country. They consider the 467 people jailed for violence and other crimes that day “political prisoners.” 

But what if January 6 means something else entirely?