The memory-holing of Trump's putsch

Neither Pearl Harbor nor 9/11 were as bad, writes Lindsay Beyerstein

In his first State of the Union address, President Joe Biden called the January 6 insurrection “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” This is an apt comparison. The insurrection was the worst attack on our democracy since the shelling of Fort Sumter, because the president of the United States schemed to overturn a free and fair electio…