Which is the article being discussed. Particularly this part:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/opinion/the-jan-6-committee-has-already-blown-it.html
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.
Those millions of Americans are out there right now. I care more about their present and future activities than about their past. Many of them are running for local office to be in a position to disrupt future elections. I’d like the committee to describe who they are, what motivates them and how much power they already have.
This is a movement, not a conspiracy. We don’t need a criminal-type investigation looking for planners or masterminds as much as we need historians and scholars and journalists to help us understand why the American Republican Party, like the Polish Law and Justice party, or the Turkish Justice and Development Party, has become a predatory semi-democratic faction.
We need a committee to explore just how close America is to rampant political violence. I had some problems with Barbara F. Walter’s recent book, “How Civil Wars Start,” but I wish all the committee members would read it if only to expand their imaginations.
The committee is already seen as a partisan exercise. It gets talked about a lot of in media and political circles, but I don't think the average citizen cares. I've never had it come up in conversation outside of political spaces. Particularly not now with the economy doing what it is doing. If it looks like a naked electoral gambit, it could actually do more harm than good. Some people think this is just like Watergate. Yeah, no. This is not the 1970s.
The main problem is that it took 18 months to get here. If actions had been taken within the first six months, it would be perceived as simple justice by most. But taking forever and timing it before a midterm has a look and feel to it. I know people love Rep. Raskin and his statements, but he often sounds like he's hyping the next Disney+ show.
I just don't think we're going to see a lot of movement out of this. Maybe some, but nowhere near the sea change people seem to think is coming. Only indictments, arrests, and trials matter in all of this. Without those, all we have are tickets to a show. And it isn't even a very interesting show. It's a show most of us saw eighteen months ago and it was written without a third act.
I would watch the hell out of an Act 3.
But we're not there. So for now, meh, I'll glance at highlights on YouTube. Political junkies will get excited about every detail, convinced this is the smoking gun that will completely damn Republicans to the abyss.
Except most people aren't political junkies. So it won't happen. Fitzmas, MuellerTime, and . . . Hearingtine's Day? I dunno. When little changes in the country on account, don't be surprised.
It's a nice exercise, but without results, it's another treadmill.
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