Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who was trapped in the House gallery during the riot, said he remembered thinking: “Is this the end of our democracy?”
The Los Angeles Democrat has safety concerns about attending the inauguration, but said, “As a member of Congress, my job is to be out in public no matter what the danger is … to show people our democracy is alive and well — that the terrorists didn’t win.”
Although many members of Congress have received threats of violence since the assault on the Capitol, Aguilar said he didn’t know of any who had been deterred from attending the inauguration.
