Almost four years prior to January 6th, 2021, I stood in the audience and stared in disbelief as President Donald J. Trump, with right hand raised and left atop the Lincoln Bible, vowed to uphold the Constitution and to end societal "American carnage." In these images, I document that same inaugural stage from which that caricature of a leader spoke of doom and gloom as it becomes the set piece from a dystopian "It Can't Happen Here" story of domestic terrorism--an inside job. This rarified space reserved for solemn and dignified assembly is flooded with, you guessed it, American carnage.
