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"Brown Community Reacts to Insurrection at Capitol" (Commentary by Richard Arenberg and Jonathan Collins)

“Disgusting is the word that keeps coming to mind,” comments Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science Richard Arenberg, and Professor Jonothan Collins says "Trump’s rhetoric “opens a can of worms” for future elections and raises concerns that whichever party loses in the future may not accept the results. When democracy does not have a peaceful transfer of power, “we lose the essence of what democracy is.”

January 8, 2021 The Brown Daily Herald

“Disgusting is the word that keeps coming to mind,” comments Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science Richard Arenberg, and Professor Jonothan Collins says "Trump’s rhetoric “opens a can of worms” for future elections and raises concerns that whichever party loses in the future may not accept the results. When democracy does not have a peaceful transfer of power, “we lose the essence of what democracy is.”

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