Object of the Week

What Capitol Riot Merch Reveals About Our Culture

They tried to overthrow our government, and all they got was a stupid T-shirt

Rob Walker
Marker
Published in
4 min readJan 21, 2021

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Trump supporters flying flags near the U.S. Capitol following the Stop the Steal rally on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.
Photo: Selcuk Acar/NurPhoto/Getty

Object of the Week is a new column exploring the objects a culture obsesses over and what that reveals about us.

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