Anniversary of the coup attempt

The clearest statement I've seen of the implications of the insurrection of January 6, 2021 comes from Jeffrey C. Isaac:

There can only be reconciliation, and healing, after the partisans who have rejected normal democratic processes have been defeated and agree once again to hold with the tenets of our Republic. 

Until that time, January 6 should not be a day not for commemoration, but for mobilization in defense of democracy.

I have no idea who Mr. Issac is, but my Civil War-era Union ancestors would no doubt agree.  

The obvious implication is that we are called in this time to use every available tool to preserve and extend the national experiment, however imperfect it is. (And it is awfully imperfect.) That means elections obviously. And the courts. And state and local governments. (Might a tarnished federal structure prove helpful?) 

But countries all over the world have shown that when freedom is under attack, mobilized, mostly nonviolent (if only because lacking the implements of violence), visible people-power matters.

To that end, I'll be attending what I fear will be a small, damp demonstration later today. If we want democracy, we have to show up, each in our own ways. Pictures to follow.