I No Longer Trust Law Enforcement to Keep Biden and Harris Safe on Inauguration Day

The siege of the Capitol revealed what most Black people already knew: Law enforcement is in league with Trumpism.

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Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on January 20. He could choose to observe this ritual in a bunker or on a plane or in a box with a fox. Invece, tuttavia, he will do it on an open-air platform erected just outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Of that, I’m sure. No matter how many threats Biden receives from Trump supporters and their enablers in Congress and the current administration, he will be inaugurated on that platform for everybody to see. It’s a statement, not just to white seditionists like Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley but also to governments around the world that the United States is “strong” and cannot be intimidated by violence. As far as Biden is concerned, luihas to be inaugurated on that stage—the same stage Trump supporters clambered over on their way to assault the Capitol—no matter how manifestly unsafe the conditions of his inauguration may be.

Biden has to be there, but Kamala Harris does not.

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