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    The simple, hopeful message from the mind-boggling and awful assault on democracy

    Michael Berkman
    Christopher Beem
    January 15, 2021
    Rioters storm the Capitol

    "Te shameful and deeply irrational response at the Capitol to the election was simply the most recent manifestation of a longstanding movement to subvert our democracy," according to the authors.

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    Berkman and Beem are on the political science faculty at Penn State University.

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