Commentary Sorry to recapitulate my column of the other day—“Suppose They Held an Inauguration and Nobody Came?”—but recent events have made it even more necessary. On the level of opéra bouffe farce, leading those events was a panic set off in the Capitol Jan. 18 that turned out to have been caused by a small fire at a homeless encampment outside a Whole Foods. What more perfect symbolic image for America 2021! How could Congress have missed it when they had as their speaker one of the great resident experts on the subject, Ms. Pelosi, whose own district probably has more homeless per capita than anywhere in the nation? But this is only one small reason we should ignore the inauguration or, as we used to say in the sixties, “Hell, no, we won’t go!” When I say ignore, I mean totally shut the event out. Pay no attention to …
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