Four years after a mob stormed the seat of US democracy to stop Donald Trump being thrown out of office by the voters, the 45th president is returning to Washington.
Democrats marked the anniversary of that attack on Monday with a Seinfeld-esque vibe: "I've got a lot of problems with you [Republicans], and now you're going to hear about it!"
Or as Jamie Raskin told our Eric Garcia today: "We won't know until Trump's party loses an election whether they're actually willing to accept the constitutional process as it's supposed to work."
In fact, there were more than a few members of the minority party making not-so-subtle jabs at their GOP rivals while calling back to the violence of that day. It was a rush to prevent the party from appearing the sore loser.
"Man, January 6 would have been a different day if it looked like today. No way Trump's goons fight the cops if it's freezing and snowing," wrote Eric Swalwell, a senator from California, as the mid-Atlantic awoke to a blanket of snow on Monday.
But there was another, more important reason: to prevent Republicans from rewriting history.
Mike Collins won the title of the GOP's chief anti-historian for the day with his newest kindly descriptor for the rioters who injured dozens of officers on January 6.
"On #ThisDayInHistory in 2021, thousands of peaceful grandmothers gathered in Washington, D.C., to take a self-guided, albeit unauthorized, tour of the U.S. Capitol building," he wrote.
"The election certification today is vastly different than 2020 — no COVID lockdowns, high GOP engagement on election integrity, and a historic win by President Trump," added Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Washington's liberals are making it clear: they're not entirely ready to move on. The onset of the Trump presidency just may not give them a choice.
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