The cost of terror hits home
MARYANNE LARREA, A YOUNG DEVOTEE OF DONALD TRUMP, felt the sting of tear gas for the first time in her life on Jan. 6, when she marched among the crowd that Trump incited to storm the Capitol. A gun-rights activist and hard-line conservative Christian, Larrea, 22, says she did not go inside the building that day; the tear gas was enough to force her away from the front of the mob. But when she got back home to Pennsylvania and started scrolling through reactions to the violence, she realized she might be in trouble. “Everyone is saying it was a terrorist attack,” she told TIME about a week after the riot. “Everyone thinks I’m a terrorist because I was at that event.”
It isn’t just the people in her news feed. A growing chorus of security experts and politicians has cast the mob, or
