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The US Capitol riots showed what a ‘bunch of entitled white people’ can do
“There’s nothing scarier than a white mob. Especially in the United States.”
These are the words of Democrat Congressman Ruben Gallego, who was evacuated from the US Capitol as a violent, angry mob closed in on January 6.
A former US Marine, Mr Gallego was ready to fight his way out of the chamber.
He says if the mob had got hold of members of Congress that day, they likely would have tried to kill them.
Watching the coverage of the Capitol Hill insurrection from Australia, you could be forgiven for seeing an element of pantomime in the events: costumes and crude levity among the rioters, a file of…
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