he's a professor of history at the university of northern colorado. i welcome to d w. so let's start with this question about democracy. what is the state of the democracy in the united states in 2022? that's a great question. we don't really know what the state is because we don't really have the answers that everybody in the country accepts about what actually happened . on january 6 before january 6th and after january 6th. so it's, it's in flux it's, it's in danger in many ways because there's not a universal understanding in the nation about what democracy actually means. and talking about that people who the people on the capital believe that the election was stolen. and as you said, there is this, there is a split difference in the united states. but how can many people still believe this to be true? well, it's hard to understand, especially i'm a historian and, and what we try to study is, historians is evidence what actually happened in the past. and then to use that evidence to build some sort of a narrative. and there's different understandings of the evidenc

he's a professor of history at the university of northern colorado. i welcome to d w. so let's start with this question about democracy. what is the state of the democracy in the united states in 2022? that's a great question. we don't really know what the state is, because we don't really have the answers that everybody in the country accepts about what actually happened. on january 6 before january 6th and after january 6th . so it's, it's in flux, it's, it's in danger in many ways because there's not a universal understanding in the nation about what democracy actually means. that's all about donald trump, one year on from this insurrection that's being cold in the capitol. where is he at right now? well, he's in moral lago, trying to get news, trying to make news, trying to keep his name in the news, and many thank he's orchestrating the elections in 2022 and maybe considering running for election in 2024. although stories are very bad at predicting the future, so i can't really say exactly what he's going to be doing in the future. but he's, he continues to misrepr