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The insurrection, one year on

The Republican Party has rewritten the history of the violence its leader caused

DAWN BANCROFT, a 59-year-old gym owner from Pennsylvania, travelled to the national capital a year ago this week to hear Donald Trump speak, not to commit terrorism. Yet as she marched up Constitution Avenue, with the former president’s instruction to “fight like hell” ringing in her ears, Ms Bancroft apparently mislaid her moral compass.

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The insurrection, one year on”

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