'The past is so present': how white mobs once killed American democracy

January's Capitol attack echoed an 1876 massacre that led to a racist takeover of South Carolina. Its effects lasted a century

Hours after Georgia elected its first-ever Black and Jewish senators, a mob of white Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. They set up a gallows on the west side of the building and hunted for lawmakers through the halls of Congress.

People around the world watched in shock: was this the United States?