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This Happened

This Happened—January 6: U.S. Capitol Attack

Supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on this date in 2021.

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What happened at the Capitol on January 6?

After the defeat of former U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, a mob of his supporters attacked the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The attack disrupted a joint session of Congress convened to certify the results of the presidential election of 2020. It was widely regarded as an insurrection or attempted coup because it aimed to prevent a sitting president-elect from assuming office.

How many people were sentenced for their roles in the January 6 riot?

By the end of 2021, 725 people had been charged with federal crimes, mostly with seditious conspiracy or insurrection.

What role did Donald Trump play in Jan. 6?

Trump repeatedly claimed without evidence that the U.S. election in which he was defeated was fraudulent. In a speech in Washington on January 6, Trump claimed the election had been stolen and encouraged thousands of supporters to march on the Capitol. A week after the riot, the House of Representatives impeached Trump for incitement of insurrection, making him the only U.S. president to have been impeached twice.

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The Demagogue's Biggest Lie: That We Don't Need Politics

Trashing politics and politicians is a classic tool of populists to seduce angry voters, and take countries into quagmires far worse than the worst years of democracy. It's a dynamic Argentina appears particularly vulnerable to.

Photograph of Javier Gerardo Milei making a speech at the end of his campaign.​

October 18, 2023, Buenos Aires: Javier Gerardo Milei makes a speech at the end of his campaign.

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Rodolfo Terragno

-OpEd-

BUENOS AIRES - I was 45 years old when I became a politician in Argentina, and abandoned politics a while back now. In 1987, Raúl Alfonsín, the civilian president who succeeded the Argentine military junta in 1983, named me cabinet minister though I wasn't a member of his party, the Radicals, or any party for that matter. I was a historian, had worked as a lawyer, wrote newspapers articles and a book in 1985 on science and technology with chapters on cybernetics, artificial intelligence and genetic engineering.

That book led Alfonsín to ask me to join his government. My belated political career began in fact after I left the ministry and while it proved to be surprisingly lengthy, it is now over. I am currently writing a biography of a molecular biologist and developing a university course on technological perspectives (futurology).

Talking about myself is risky in a piece against 'anti-politics,' or the rejection of party politics. I do so only to make clear that I am writing without a personal interest. I am out of politics, and have never been a member of what Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni calls la casta, "the caste" — i.e., the political establishment.

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