“We Live Here Now” and Trump’s Retelling of January 6

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

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As Donald Trump returns to the White House, his desire to recast January 6 as a day of “love and peace,” as he called it during his campaign, seems as strong as ever. Earlier this week, he told the NBC reporter Kristen Welker that he would “most likely” pardon Capitol rioters on day one. This week’s Radio Atlantic shares the first episode of our series about January 6 published just before the 2024 election, called We Live Here Now. Hanna Rosin and co-host Lauren Ober enter a universe of alternative facts, speaking with J6 prisoners and their families, and following a J6 case on which Ober was a juror. Mostly, though, the series is about their neighbor, who they discovered one day is a crucial character in the retelling of January 6. Subscribe to We Live Here Now wherever you get podcasts. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | PocketCasts | YouTube –- Share understanding this holiday season. For less than $2 a week, give a yearlong Atlantic subscription to someone special. They’ll get unlimited access to Atlantic journalism, including magazine issues, narrated articles, puzzles, and more. Give today at TheAtlantic.com/podgift. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.0	What we now know as the Lost Cosmeth built steam over time,
1:02.6	with lectures, magazine stories, and then statues and monuments,
1:07.2	until eventually it became for some Southerners the official narrative of the war, eventually,
1:13.8	meaning like many decades later.
1:16.5	But back then, there was no TV, no Twitter, no truth social to speed up the process of revising
1:23.8	history.
1:25.4	A few days ago, Trump did his first post-election interview on NBC with
1:29.7	Christian Welker. And by most accounts, his rhetoric seemed tempered. A typical headline about the
1:35.4	interview was Trump pools on taking revenge against foes. But there was one part about halfway
1:42.0	through the interview when Trump did not seem so mellow.
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