ITT Sound Off: A Self-coup

Published: Jan. 7, 2022, 11:31 p.m.

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Maria and Julio reflect on the one-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. They get into President Biden\\u2019s remarks this week and what accountability looks like for the attack. We also hear from Ren\\xe9e Graham, opinion columnist at the Boston Globe, about the language surrounding the attack and how local extremist movements have expanded in the year since.\\xa0 ITT Staff Picks: - \\u201cIt\\u2019s infuriating when someone in the media or a pundit insists on calling Jan. 6 a riot. What millions witnessed live at the U.S. Capitol was not a protest spurred by passions that spontaneously combusted,\\u201d writes Ren\\xe9e Graham for the Boston Globe. - Elie Mystal writes about the implications of attorney general Merrick Garland\\u2019s slow-moving prosecution of participants of the January 6 insurrection in this piece for The Nation. - In this piece for Vice, Tess Owen reports on the evolving tactics of the Proud Boys, a far-right neo-fascist gang, in the year following the Capitol insurrection.\\xa0 Photo credit: AP Photo/John Minchillo, File \\xa0

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