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April 2021 Issue [Letter from Georgia]

Civil Warning

Are we living through another antebellum era?
Insurrectionists outside the U.S. Capitol, January 6, 2021 (detail) © Victor J. Blue

Insurrectionists outside the U.S. Capitol, January 6, 2021 (detail) © Victor J. Blue

[Letter from Georgia]

Civil Warning

Are we living through another antebellum era?
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If we lived in a functioning democracy, January 6 would be remembered as the day Jon Ossoff and the Reverend Raphael Warnock won their Senate seats. Warnock’s race was called early that morning and Ossoff’s only hours later. Years of Democratic organizing in once deep-red Georgia had finally paid off. The improbable twin victories would bring the party control of the Senate. Democrats’ jubilation proved short-lived, however, as hundreds of Trump supporters ransacked the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Incited by the president’s words—“We will never give up, we…

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 is the author, most recently, of the novel 2034, co-written with Admiral James Stavridis, which was published in March by Penguin Press.


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