WATCH: The effect of Jan. 6 on America’s democracy, two years later

In the two years since a mob of former President Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to stop the 2020 election certification, election deniers have run for office at all levels in the U.S., poll workers have been threatened, and Trump has once again announced his candidacy for president while still espousing baseless claims of fraud in the last presidential election. But the tenets of American democracy held firm in the 2022 midterm elections despite the Jan. 6 insurrection and elected officials continuing to spread lies about the results of the 2020 election.

Yascha Mounk, a professor with Johns Hopkins University and the author of “The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure,” said while he is concerned and wary about how the 2024 election will go, there is good news about how the 2022 elections went.

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