I wish I could say that these hearings will lead to tangible improvement in American civic life. I have my doubts. The reality of both the events on January 2021 and the current hearings is that the GOP establishment is terrified of angering Trump. They don't want to purge their party of this malignancy, because he enjoys the adoration of the very "poorly educated" voters that they need to win elections. They look at Mitt Romney's 2012 election and the "missing white voters" and then they look at 2016 when those white voters showed up.
So they punt on any sort of responsibility for endangering and continuing to endanger American democracy...and they will likely be rewarded for it in November, because of inflation.
It's one reason why I haven't been eager to post about politics recently. Too damned depressing.
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