Before, During, After, January 6

The Historical Perspective at Six Months

- By Rick Perlstein

1 THE LONG AUTHORITARIAN HISTORY OF THE CAPITOL RIOT

After 25 years studying the american right, I think I’ve drilled down to the irreducible core of the thing. Because in these United States everything eventually comes down to questions of commerce, I found it, appropriately enough, in a 1981 yearbook of