By Emily Davies
One year since people stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from counting the Electoral College votes, the country is collectively still figuring out exactly what happened.
“As Americans, we do like to politically protest,” UW-Stevens Point political science Prof. John Blakeman said. In fact, it is written into the Constitution. “But storming the Capitol is above and beyond our sort of typical sensibilities when it comes to political protest.”
Five people died and the U.S. Department of Justice has more than 2,000 open criminal cases against individuals there, 700 of which have been charged. Blakeman said in the initial aftermath, while opinions fell along party lines, there was some consensus.
“A large majority across political parties who thought that this was a threat to democracy and were willing to call it an insurrection.”
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