FBI agents across the nation are tracking down and arresting Trump supporters who walked into the US Capitol during the January 6 protest that turned into a brawl. Scores of protestors have already been charged with unlawful entry—“knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority.” The media is treating this as a heinous and self-evident offense, but my own experience at Washington protests makes me wary of treating transgressions as treason. I roamed downtown Washington on the day before the inauguration. The city was a ghost town, and most of the stores were either boarded up … Continue reading In a Paranoid Nation, ‘Treason’ Is Everywhere