We don’t need a committee to simply regurgitate what happened on Jan. 6, 2021. We need a committee that will preserve democracy on Jan. 6, 2025, and Jan. 6, 2029. We need a committee to locate the weaknesses in our democratic system and society and find ways to address them.
The core problem here is not the minutiae of who texted what to chief of staff Mark Meadows on Jan. 6 last year. The core problem is that there are millions of Americans who have three convictions: that the election was stolen, that violence is justified in order to rectify it and that the rules and norms that hold our society together don’t matter.
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American democracy is fragile and the extreme ideologies don’t care. They seem to relish it. Plus… those who relish that thought clearly haven’t looked at history when systems are thrown into upheaval quickly… unless they just love bloodbaths and extreme chaos that follows for decades.
And we need far more intelligence than calling January 6 a “dust up.”
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