Violent efforts to subvert US democracy predate the 2021 insurrection

Evidence

And more recently, when millions of white Americans expressed shock that violent insurrectionists would try to overturn an election in the “world’s oldest democracy,” Black Americans reminded them that violent efforts to subvert U.S. democracy were not novel nor unprecedented and that true democracy has been attempted in this country only since 1965, when after a bloody and deadly decades-long Black freedom struggle, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 65

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the ‘deviation vs design’ framing — that political violence is design, not deviation, in US history.