This day promises to take on an opposite meaning from four years ago.
January 6. This date symbolizes all that went wrong in Donald Trump’s first administration and the multi-pronged effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Voting laws had been altered in the middle of the presidential campaign, with a record number of unsolicited mail-in ballots significantly boosting the prospects of challenger Joe Biden. Enraged Trump supporters reacted by inciting the infamous Capitol riot that led to more than a thousand arrests. Memories of that day are still ripe, especially among Democrats who unsuccessfully attempted to make it the foundation of their efforts to deny Trump a second term four years later.
But 2025 will be entirely different. Recollections of that fateful day four years ago will be replaced – at least…
