Historians and political scientists react to Wednesday's siege on the Capitol

“It's watching one of those terrible historical moments in real time.” That’s how political historian Julian E. Zelizer, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, described his reaction to Wednesday’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. But was Zelizer surprised? “At one level, it’s just horrible to watch our democracy be in this place,” he said as the 6 p.m. curfew approached and pro-Trump extremists began to...