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CousinIT

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Thu Jan 6, 2022, 11:54 AM Jan 2022

One Year Later, Duke Scholars Examine Fallout From US Capitol Riot

https://today.duke.edu/2022/01/one-year-later-scholars-examine-fallout-us-capitol-riot

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“If we don’t reckon with the deep historical roots of what happened this time last year, those events could be prologue to a far worse outcome in the future,” says Nancy MacLean, a Duke professor of history and public policy.

MacLean points to the finding from the House select committee tasked with investigating the events of Jan. 6, which identified three rings of activity: a large, less complicit outer circle of avid Republican voters, a smaller number of committed white-power insurrectionists and an inner circle that strategized to overthrow the election, exploiting federalism to achieve its ends.

“Each of these elements is the product of decades of intentional cultivation,” MacLean says.

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The storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a historic travesty but what has happened in America since then has been even worse,” adds David Schanzer, a professor of the practice at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.

Schanzer says that with one party seemingly unwilling to accept the legitimacy of any election it does not win, the two-party system that has provided political stability in the United States since the end of the Civil War may be on the verge of collapse.

“Even during a global pandemic and while the climate catastrophe is unfolding, this assault on American democracy is the most pressing issue of our times,” Schanzer says.




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Thu Jan 6, 2022, 12:25 PM
Jan 2022

for posting this important, informative article, CousinIT. This kind of perspective on January 6, 2021, needs to be broadcast to all people, living here. So much to be learned, studied grasped in a practical sense to save our democracy.

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