The insurrection was not a spontaneous act nor an isolated event. It was a battle in a war over the future of American democracy.The forces behind the attack remain potent and growing. Trump fortified his hold on the Republican Party, sustaining his election-fraud lie and demanding more restrictive voting laws, even though the 2020 results have been repeatedly affirmed by the courts. A distrust in the voting process has spread across the country, shaking the foundation on which the American experiment was built — the shared belief that the nation’s leaders are freely and fairly elected.