Young political leaders in our community said the violence exposed just how fragile democracy is. It was devastating,” TU College Republicans chairman Evan Shaw said. “It was utterly horrific in every imaginable way. This can t happen in the United States. We need to be able to push back against that and push for something better.” Our enemies are laughing,” TU College Democrats president Roman Shelton said. “They see failure because that s exactly what it was. It was a failure of our system and I just want to say, thank God for the police who were there to protect the Capitol as best as they could.