New York
A decade has passed since the irruption in Washington, in this same Capitol, of a group of parliamentarians "
insurgents
", pure product of a conservative counter-revolution carried in triumph during the
midterms.
(mid-term elections) in 2010. This Tea Party movement, as it was then called, seemed to have lived.
Its leaders, Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor in particular, had left the federal political scene.
But their yellow flag, a coiled snake surmounted by the words "Don't tread on me", resurfaced thanks to the Trump phenomenon in 2015. It was omnipresent on Wednesday, on the invaded Capitol steps by a few thousand pro-Trump enthusiasts, some members of extreme right-wing, anti-Semitic and white supremacist groups, such as the Proud Boys.
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The GOP (Grand Old Party, conservative) thought they had "
digested
" Trumpism by making its populist precepts its own, this unnatural denunciation of the
federal
"
marigo
t" and its "
corrupt
" elites.
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