On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump sent a mob of his supporters to the U.S. Capitol and then sat there cheering them on in private while they ransacked the place. It wasn’t a mystery what was going on even in the moment. These people were telling us exactly why they were attacking the Capitol, on multiple social media platforms, as they were doing it: they were trying to invalidate the results of a democratic election through violence so that Trump could remain president.
Although a lot more detail would come out following the riot, by January 7, anyone who hadn’t spent the past four years learning to ignore what their eyes and ears were telling them in favor of whatever spewed out of Trump’s mouth knew the essential elements of the situation. As for everyone else, well, if watching the Capitol insurrection itself didn’t snap them back into reality, it is difficult to imagine what could.
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Which is why I didn’t have high hopes for the investigatory committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and the public hearings about January 6 that we are now in the midst of. A great many things have happened since 2016 which I would think would have been more effective at dislodging a reflexive defense of Trump as a personality trait.
I’m starting to come around though. It doesn’t hurt that the hearings are being conducted skillfully.
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