Free Beacon Fact Checks Mainstream Claim That Jan 6 Inspired the Unrest in Brazil

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As catchy as it sounds, the CNN headline is dangerously misleading. Experts agree that describing the January 6 uprising (and the insurrection in Brazil) as failed coups is not correct. They were failed autogolpes.

Mainstream journalists are obsessed with January 6 and profoundly ignorant of events that happened before Barack Obama wore a tan suit to the White House briefing room in August 2014.

There were actually quite a few political uprisings that took place prior to the storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021. The following is a non-exhaustive list of insurrections throughout human history (AD) that laid the groundwork for January 6.

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