Joe Capitalist
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Don’t Let Anyone Tell You the January 6 Hearings Don’t Matter
Beginning on Thursday night, a resounding case will be made that Trump should never be allowed near Washington again.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166711/january-6-commission-media-strategy
The prime-time January 6 committee hearings that begin on Thursday—the first of at least six, which will run until September—are the Democrats’ last, best chance to make the case that Republicans are an existential threat to American democracy. The party is hardly confident that they will make a dime’s worth of difference.
“Democrats aren’t counting on the panel’s work and its focus on the attempt by former president Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election to help them much with voters this fall,” reported The Washington Post on Monday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her caucus that “voters will not cast their ballots based on Jan. 6 and the events that led up to that deadly day” and instead will be focused on “the cost of food, gas prices and what the party is doing to help families.” These remarks, the Post noted, “underscored the growing belief in the party that views on the insurrection have hardened along party lines like so many issues.”
Democrats are right to be pessimistic about the ability of these hearings to move the electoral needle, particularly with regard to the upcoming midterms. A great deal of salacious, incriminating information about the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol—and the involvement of high-ranking Republicans, including then-President Donald Trump—has already leaked out. Despite the fact that this information illuminates a concerted effort to overturn a legitimate democratic election, it has barely registered as an important issue for voters. Pelosi and her fellow Democrats are thus correct that the need to talk with voters about inflation and the larger economy is paramount. (If they’re serious about this, they should devote as much time to tasks such as fighting to reinstate the child tax credit—this is an area where Democrats have lost ground with voters who probably don’t need to be convinced that coups d’état are bad.)
Beginning on Thursday night, a resounding case will be made that Trump should never be allowed near Washington again.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166711/january-6-commission-media-strategy
The prime-time January 6 committee hearings that begin on Thursday—the first of at least six, which will run until September—are the Democrats’ last, best chance to make the case that Republicans are an existential threat to American democracy. The party is hardly confident that they will make a dime’s worth of difference.
“Democrats aren’t counting on the panel’s work and its focus on the attempt by former president Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election to help them much with voters this fall,” reported The Washington Post on Monday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her caucus that “voters will not cast their ballots based on Jan. 6 and the events that led up to that deadly day” and instead will be focused on “the cost of food, gas prices and what the party is doing to help families.” These remarks, the Post noted, “underscored the growing belief in the party that views on the insurrection have hardened along party lines like so many issues.”
Democrats are right to be pessimistic about the ability of these hearings to move the electoral needle, particularly with regard to the upcoming midterms. A great deal of salacious, incriminating information about the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol—and the involvement of high-ranking Republicans, including then-President Donald Trump—has already leaked out. Despite the fact that this information illuminates a concerted effort to overturn a legitimate democratic election, it has barely registered as an important issue for voters. Pelosi and her fellow Democrats are thus correct that the need to talk with voters about inflation and the larger economy is paramount. (If they’re serious about this, they should devote as much time to tasks such as fighting to reinstate the child tax credit—this is an area where Democrats have lost ground with voters who probably don’t need to be convinced that coups d’état are bad.)
