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Thursday, October 13, 2022

The January 6th Hearings. Going. Going. Gone.

 ("House Jan. 6 Panel Plans a Sweeping Summation of Its Case Against Trump")

The case against Trump is overwhelming, undeniable and, well, irrelevant. 

Just like the pandemic, hey we're over it. Ok, so it happened, but, really, move on.

The problem is half the country doesn't care, whatever the evidence supports, they support Mr. Trump. The other half, who does care, doesn't care anymore.

Oh sure, it is critical for history to be written accurately. And yes, if we don't pay attention, well the future may be so much worse than anything we might imagine.

But justice delayed is justice discarded. And for Donald Trump, he can run out the clock with the best of them. We lose focus. We lose interest. It is his best defense.

So yes, this might be, may be the last hearing to tell us definitively what we knew even before the first of these hearings began. Donald Trump was an insurrectionist with anti-impostor syndrome, believing in all the lies he told about himself, clinging to his power with every ounce of strength he could extract from those who followed his every wish as their command.

I understand what I am about to write is not the politic response to the efforts of the January 6th committee, and their exhaustive undertaking to expose Mr. Trump.

Please, no more hearings. No more big reveal. Too much is far more than enough. 

And, to our great misfortune, not nearly enough to take down its target. 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

you certainly nailed it lois

Anonymous said...

I can only say that I am grateful that our votes will be cast in Florida and I pray with my heart and soul they make a difference!

EA

Anonymous said...

So true. Really sad.

MK

Anonymous said...

Although hearings are an integral part of our democracy, I wish the format could be augmented by an additional venue. It is unfortunate that the Democrats cannot lean on rallies or some other venue to reinforce what the hearings mean. News talk shows are not enough. Despite CNN's ridicule of Trump's distortions of the truth at his arranged rallies, it may very well be that he is succeeding in negating the facts of the hearings. A page out of Hitler's playbook--RE