Timing
"Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor."
-- Hesiod
Timing is everything in making love or war. Donald Trump imagined that there would be portraits of him at the Capital on January 6, in the spirit of George Washington crossing the Delaware. Bad timing.
Today, he is splattering out messages, denying he really knew Cassidy Hutchinson, and everything she testified to today. Again, bad timing.
In many sports, one must practice form, then train to add speed to that form, which results in power. Yet that potential for power depends upon timing. It wasn't just that the great Henry Aaron could swing a bat hard -- he timed those pitches that he knocked out of the stadium. Trump mastered none of these, hence he choked when he stood at the plate of history. Then he threw the plate against the wall.
The January 6 Committee has shown a mastery of form, speed, power, and timing. Although I recognize that advances in technology have added to the appeal of their public presentations, I think these hearings are the very best I've ever seen. Better than Watergate, better than Iran-Contra. And the Senate's Watergate hearings set the bar high.
Today's hearing has been compared already to two of the most important Watergate hearings witnesses, John Dean and Alexander Butterfield. Dean brought the scandal into the Oval Office in his testimony. Butterfield was a surprise witness, who had confirmed that there was a White House taping system three days before his public testimony. when the Committee allowed republican counsel Fred Thompson to ask the key question.
While I like historical comparisons, I think that Cassidy Hutchinson is unique. Dean was testifying with "use immunity," and looking to make a deal with the Department of Justice. Butterfield was an Air Force veteran, who was simply doing the right thing. Hutchinson has had threats to her safety, and will now endure the attacks on her character that the Trump cult is famous for.
Yet there are some interesting post-testimony indicators that things are crumbling for Trump and Mark Meadows. Former chief of staff Muck Mulvaney said Hitchinson is honest, and others must now testify. If a muckraker like Mulvaney is abandoning ship, things are growing far worse after today.
I might disagree with 99% of Hutchinson's social-political views, but I respect what she is doing for this country.
Peace,
H2O Man
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I agree, as someone who watched the Watergate hearings in real time (at the beach, with my Republican father; fun times!). These have been, to use a favorite Preet Bharara term, crisp and riveting.
And there is more to come! 
Cassidy strikes me as an upright young lady who grew up in a conservative family and initially voted the way her parents voted. They probably had political friends who got her connected as an intern in Congress.
She was bright, attractive, the kind of person who would be affirmed and be brought along within that propaganda environment.
We forget what the media environment is like for conservatives, how pervasive, how much it built up The Donald and also ran with the message that his detractors (us awful Dems) were trying to tear him down. That helped cover up the fact that there were huge reasons Dems were so critical, all she probably saw then was that the Fox storyline was true.
People also tend to hold opinions similar to those around them (see PBS's "Hacking Your Mind"
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But now she has been busted out of the group think and will quickly discover that RW media is lying about her testimony and the Insurrection and will hopefully diversify her sources. I hope so for all our sakes. We could use more articulate spokespeople with her background who have seen the light.
