Within 48 hours of the terrorist attack involving a vehicle in New Orleans, police arrested a man driving along the sidewalk just outside the U.S. Capitol. It happened just before 10 a.m. on Thursday when officers spotted a car that had been driving along the sidewalk and into a grassy area near Third and Constitution.

As right-wing figures blamed factors ranging from Islam to the Biden administration's nonexistent "open borders policy" for the deadly New Year's Day attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, progressive observers noted Thursday that the men who carried out those attacks both served in the U.