If there’s one thing the January 6th hearing reminded everyone of, it’s that Donald Trump will represent a mortal threat to American democracy until the day he retires from politics, JohnCassidy writes.
, the Department hasn’t yet indicted anyone in Trump’s immediate orbit. The farthest Garland has gone was his pledge in January, on the eve of the anniversary of the insurrection, that his department “remains committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law—whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.
If the Feds don’t indict Trump because they don’t think there is enough evidence to secure a conviction from a jury, the job of protecting democracy from the former President will fall on his quislings in the Republican Party and, eventually, on American voters at large. In this context, the hearings provide an important public service in two ways.
First, they remind elected Republicans, whose ultimate loyalty is to themselves, that if they don’t somehow find a way to move past Trump they will spend years defending the indefensible. Because, as sure as the sun rises, Trump is going to make them do it.
? What about the “multiple” G.O.P. lawmakers who, according to Cheney’s presentation, contacted the White House in the weeks after January 6th and asked for Presidential pardons for their role in promoting Trump’sFor the sake of argument, let’s assume that, two years from now, Trump and hishordes steamroll their way through the G.O.P. primaries, as they did in 2016, and it’s left to the American people to stop him at the voting booth.
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