And Now the Match Is Lit
President Trump and Senate Republicans fomented this violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol
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 happening in the country these past years, that the divisions have the potential to intensify into something even more extreme. The stories in Rumors of War explore what that might be — and what we might face on the other side of Election Day.
We did not know how long it would take before there was trouble in the streets, at the very least. And for a time after Joe Biden’s victory, we thought we had been perhaps excessively worried for the fate of American democracy, which had seemed so clearly to be hanging in the balance in the last months of Trump’s term.
And now here we are. The day has finally come. Trumpist insurrectionists have stormed the U.S. Capitol. U.S. senators and…
