June 17 marks 50 years since the Democratic Party’s headquarters in the United States, a burglary that led to the resignation of President Nixon almost two years later. And while Watergate is America’s most notorious political scandal, the storming of the Capitol could have been a major threat to American democracy. – What happened on January 6 is a much bigger threat to American democracy than the Watergate scandal was, says Dag Blanck, professor of North American Studies at Uppsala University. See more in the player above.
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Professor on the congressional storm: “Bigger threat than Watergate was”
