And Now the Match Is Lit

President Trump and Senate Republicans fomented this violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol

Garance Franke-Ruta
GEN
Published in
3 min readJan 6, 2021

--

Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images

Right before the presidential election, GEN published Rumors of War, a package of stories about what might happen after the election.

The signs and portents of trouble are all around us. We all know and feel like something unusual has been…

--

--

Garance Franke-Ruta
GEN
Writer for

Executive Editor, GEN by Medium. Previously: Yahoo News, The Atlantic, The Washington Post. garance-at-medium-dot-com.