Just the heads up y'all, this episode contains strong language and depictions of violence.

I'm Shrine Mari-Soul Maraji.

I'm Jean-Demby and this is Coat Switch.

From NPR.

And like all of you, we are still trying to make sense of Wednesday, January 6th, 2021.

Because somehow, even after these last four years, there are still new iterations of what the

WTF.

We're going to walk down to the Capitol.

And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.

Because you'll never take back our country with weakness.

You have to show strength and you have to be strong.

We know Donald Trump urged hundreds of his supporters to go to the Capitol,

a directive that came after months of dodging questions about whether he would commit to a peaceful

transfer of power if he lost the election, which he did, and weeks of not conceding

said election. So his supporters who marched on the Capitol were angry and some were armed.

When that crowd got to the Capitol, they quickly overran the unusually small number of police

there and their security barriers.

It was surreal. People with United States flags, Trump 2020 flags, then blue line flags,

waves supposedly in support of the police attacking the police while breaking into the Capitol

building. Inside the Capitol building, it was chaos. Members of Congress and staffers,

they were being ushered by officers to secure locations. Some people barricaded themselves

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