Johnny Reb in the Rotunda: This Trump supporter was part of the mob that broke into the Capitol on January 6.(Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)
Mike Pence stood up to Donald Trump’s tirade. He certified the vote. He was unflinching. He now implies that day’s been overblown, Though he’s the one the mob had talked of lynching.
Republicans with futures in the party Do well to see the rioters as purest Supporters of Trump’s view that he was cheated— Or maybe, as one pol has said, as tourists.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”