Jan. 6 hearings are the jolt of reality Republicans need. But they'll ignore it

[marmar]

Jan. 6 hearings are the jolt of reality Republicans need. But they’ll ignore it

BY LEONARD PITTS JR.
UPDATED JUNE 10, 2022 3:11 PM


It comes at the end.

After his supporters march on the U.S. Capitol chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” after they breach police barricades, after they smash windows and climb through, after they chant “Hang Mike Pence” and erect a gallows for that purpose, after one of them yells, “White power!” after police are beaten and sprayed and left pleading for backup, after congressional aides flee for their lives, after the proud old American tradition of a peaceful transfer of power has been laid waste forever in an unprecedented bacchanal of carnage. After all that, the voice of Donald Trump is heard in an interview given five days later.

“They were peaceful people,” he says. “These were great people. The crowd was unbelievable. ... The love in the air, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

That moment of cognitive disconnect caps a video played during Thursday night’s televised hearing by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection last year. That committee has multiple missions: to determine the causes, to establish a record of events, to evaluate the performance of law enforcement. But that video — and, more to the point, that moment at the end where Trump lauds the “love” of a mob ransacking the seat of government — suggests another purpose:

Inviting Republicans to return to our shared reality.

....(snip)....

Unfortunately, the more deeply people are invested in the comfort of lies, the less use they have for the challenges of truth. So it seems likely the committee’s appeal for Republicans to rejoin reality is destined for meager success at best. .........(more)

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[demosincebirth]

1. You can't bring the truth to a cult mentality

[luv2fly]

2. All the remaining MAGAts for sure

The author states "Unfortunately, the more deeply people are invested in the comfort of lies, the less use they have for the challenges of truth." Seems like a fancy way of saying what we all know... we've lost the MAGAts, but there are reasonable Republicans still out there and I suspect many will be swayed by what is yet to come.

People are watching, and people that watch are talking to people that didn't watch, or didn't know, or don't care. Conversations are occurring, and while many minds are already made up, some people will be swayed. And those people will talk to their friends, and they may sway others.

All that said, I don't know anything.

[mopinko]

3. if enough people are talking about it, they may have to watch in hopes of debunking it.

the talking heads, esp, are gonna bump into serious accusations that they'll HAVE to address. esp the ones that directly contradict their excuses. like when they explain who was actually responsible to the security stand down. they're asking questions they dont want the answers to.

whether they'll ever fess up is another matter, but...

[TigressDem]

4. tRump only "saw" his people at his rally.

So his comment:

“They were peaceful people,” he says. “These were great people. The crowd was unbelievable. ... The love in the air, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Is technically true. The majority of the 8000 people there for tRump were showing HIM great love and affection.


BUT like a bunch of Pitbulls defending their owner, THEY TURNED into a viscous mob, directed, encouraged and prompted by the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.


HE REFUSED TO SEE THEM as "bad" because they were just doing what he told them to do.

Violence against others is fine if it serves his political purpose.

[patphil]

5. Trump's base is unshakeable, but I think the hearings will awaken the middle,

and galvanize the left.
The first installment was a wake up call for America.

[empedocles]

6. Republican voters shifted positive a great deal on Ukraine aid

from the trump years, with mass media exposure.

Mass Jan6 hearings exposure, may, voters weaken the rw coup attempt.