The dome still stands, but illusions do not. Lawmakers returned to their chambers and completed the count, a performance of continuity under the shadow of broken glass.
Yet words of unity come cheap. Too many voices in power spent weeks feeding the falsehoods that fueled the breach. Today they pretend surprise. Tomorrow they will call for moving on.
But if accountability dies here, the Republic may have survived January 6 only to collapse later, undone by the refusal to face what was plain to see.
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