The news reports that the insurrectionist photographed parading in the Capitol with a large Confederate flag, Keven Seefried, has been busted. Mr. Seefried’s home state, Delaware, was a slave state, but the people of Delaware voted in early 1861 not to secede from the Union. Even so, Seefried chose to display the flag of rebellion, secession, and slavery of black to white. This constellation of evils was defeated in the 1860s, but has risen up again and again, and in 2020-2021 has once more attacked the United States of America.

But an additional flag of racism and rebellion was seen everywhere at the insurrection. Rep. Cori Bush reports in her account of her experience of the attack on the Capitol: “I could see Trump flags and Confederate flags gradually moving closer. I froze in disbelief.” This dramatizes the fact that the Trump flag is the new Confederate flag, for the Trump flag also symbolizes lawlessness, rebellion, and white supremacy.