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Don't join the mob.

We can trace so many of our institutions back to ancient Rome.

In Rome they had senators and a senate which stood on Capitol Line Hill.

Here in America, all these thousands of years later, we have senators and a senate that

conducts business in the Capitol, which sits at the center of Capitol Hill.

There's also another institution in Rome's day, one that loomed large in public life

that is stayed with us, the mob, the rabble, the riotous mass.

The insurrectionists that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 smearing the temple of democracy

with feces and blood, wearing clothes that celebrated the Holocaust, waving the Confederate

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