What Do We Call It?

Was it a coup? An insurrection? Sedition? A lark? Some suggestions.

Photo by Austin Pachecoon Unsplash

Wednesday, as the joint House and Senate was about to meet in congress to tally and to certify the votes of the several states, a Trump rally turned into, first a march, then a protest, then a melee and, finally, a rout of the DC police. For the first time ever, the Confederate Flag was openly taken into the Capitol…