Comment on Statement on the Insurrection at the US Capitol by M Anne Pitcher

These types of statements are largely symbolic, I understand that. Nevertheless it extremely disappointing to read such a poorly framed response to a national crisis. I do not understand why APSA did not call attention to the excellent quantitative and qualitative research and public facing scholarship by political scientists who have sought for years to explain the institutional, socio-economic, political and cultural variables that underpin the ascent of Trump and the dangers his cabal poses to democracy. Plentiful too is the scholarship that has analyzed persistent challenges to those structures, policies, organizations, and behaviors that made Trump’s ascent possible. If the work of political scientists does not become part of a national conversation over the causes of Wednesday’s debacle, I doubt seriously that we will fix our broken country.