According to Lepore, what happened yesterday is inexplicable as part of “American history.” We are “off the grid of the trajectory” of that history and are experiencing an episode from the history of elsewhere— “other countries, failed states.”

Just an outrageous, irresponsible, and—honestly—shockingly uninformed thing for a historian of the US to say

Full interview here: https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/01/07/jill-lepore-capitol-insurrection-historical-context

She is literally saying “there is no sense to be made of this episode within the context of its occurrence, we have to think about it like it is happening somewhere else.” lol what

In a funny way, she is also saying: “oh hell, I don’t know how to make sense of what is happening, my training is no guide here, please ask someone else.” The media should just do that. Lots of better voices on this