Congressional hearings are often filled with partisan squabbling and grandstanding. The Capitol riot panel was different, and America is better off for it.
The hearings of the House select committee on the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol presented a careful, convincing and disturbing account of Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. They provided an abundance of detail about what we’ve long known: that Trump and his allies engaged in an assault not only on Congress but also on democracy itself.
A video of former US president Donald Trump is displayed as members of the House select committee to investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol held its last public meeting on December 19.Like a slow-motion replay, the committee’s work also gave Americans a second chance to comprehend the enormity of what transpired on that day.
The seven Democrats and two Republicans who served on the committee captured the attention of Americans who may not have been sufficiently informed or alarmed about Trump’s role in the events to take notice. The two Republicans, Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, deserve particular credit for defying their party to participate.
The lesson, in part, is that our democracy is inescapably fragile. It requires Americans and those who serve them as elected officials and in law enforcement to act in good faith. The committee rightly spent many hours of its work documenting the actions of all those local, state and federal officials who defied Trump’s demands and acted in many different ways to protect democracy.
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