Dince June 9, the Commission’s first televised broadcast on January 6, the hearings have been going on and feeding the news. The body is investigating the day Donald Trump supporters invaded the Capitol in Washington to interrupt the certification of the November 2020 presidential election, won by Joe Biden. January 6, 2021 is already far away, in a gigantic country where some may not have felt as concerned as the inhabitants of the east coast. And the horrified elected Republicans that day have since silenced their critics.
Jack Rakove, professor of history and political science at Stanford, laments: “On January 6, there was a visceral reaction at the time, the Republicans wanted to accomplish their task and complete the certification…
