In response to a coup attempt on behalf of Donald Trump, Duke University experts have participated in a series of virtual discussions about the threats of white supremacy, threat of insurrection, and domestic terrorism. “Anytime you have a mob willing to overpower and injure people to get inside the Capitol to overwhelm and harm Congressional representatives, American democracy has a problem,” said Duke historian Adriane Lentz-Smith, who participated in the January 13 discussion entitled “Insurrection, Policing and Democracy.” In October, Mayor Steve Schewel joined a handful of mayors across the country in signing a letter to the White House that condemned Trump for egging on armed right-wing extremists and “applauding the armed intimidation of peaceful protesters.”