The US went through a civil war. A President was impeached. The US was defeated in a war in Asia. We had race riots every few weeks. National leaders were assassinated with alarming regularity.

The idea that the last few years have been "nothing like anything that has happened in existence" seems quite naive.

> Legislators in the American Capital had to be evacuated not from an invading army

And some even claimed to be there who weren't for political points.