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The January 6 select committee in the House of Representatives holds its first prime-time hearings tonight one every cable news channel.  (You wiseacres who point out that Fox News isn't airing them can shut up and sit down now; Fox News is a news channel like TLC - formerly The Learning Channel - is still an educational channel.)  Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (below) and his colleagues will go through a carefully structured, chronologically linear, explanatory narrative to show how Trump and his minions coordinated with the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and orchestrated the effort to block Joe Biden from assuming the Presidency.

Alas, I don't think it will matter much.  People's attention and concerns have long since shifted elsewhere, and at least a third of the country and at most half of it thinks the election was stolen.  If the Justice Department is working on this case at all, they're at least as far along as the January 6 committee is, and anyway Merrick Garland doesn't need much convincing.  But then, maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe these televised hearings will make a difference. We shall see.