Brewer discusses U.S. Capitol insurrection with News Center Maine
Mark Brewer, professor and acting chair of the University of Maine Department of Political Science, spoked to News Center Maine about the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the political divide surrounding it on the eve of its first anniversary. “In the grand scope of recorded human history, democracy is a tiny little sliver, and it’s a very fragile thing,” Brewer said. “Any time it’s threatened, that threat needs to be taken seriously. I think the threat right now to American democracy is the biggest it’s been, perhaps in American history, but it’s definitely the biggest it’s been in a century at least.”