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    It Was Supposed to Be So Much Worse

    And the threat to the U.S. government hasn’t passed.
    by Elaine Godfrey Jan 09, 2021 5 minutes
    Source: Shay Horse / NurPhoto / Getty

    Updated at 8:45 a.m. ET on April 21, 2021.

    On the West Lawn of the Capitol Wednesday, a man in a pom-pom beanie clamored for blood. “Execute the traitors!” he shouted into a megaphone. “I wanna see executions!”

    The man got the deaths he wanted, if not the executions. Four rioters died as a result of Wednesday’s insurrection at the Capitol.* Some of them had bigger plans too: Before the protest, pro-Trump radicals had posted online about their intentions to kill Vice President Mike Pence. They brought zip ties and wore Kevlar vests. Rioters erected a wooden gallows next to the Capitol Reflecting Pool, and police discovered two pipe bombs on Capitol Hill.

    The violence could have been even worse. Some of the rioters clearly wanted it to be. And Wednesday’s attack may to Washington around Inauguration Day.

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