The Jan. 6 committee hearings show a president determined to retain power by enlisting willing conspirators and violent marauders
Richard II, who considered himself “in heavenly pay.” Julius Caesar, who believed that he was as “constant as the Northern Star.” Edmund, the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester in, who was asked to commit a heinous act and is told, “To be tender-minded/Does not become a Sword.”
They show a president who was determined to retain power in a political system that prizes grace in the defeated, and who enlisted the assistance of both willing conspirators from the heart of public life and violent marauders at, and beyond, the fringes of respectable society. One of the most searing questions has gone unanswered: Has this enterprise, conducted by seven Democratic regulars and two Republican rebels, diminished its impact by making itself vulnerable to charges that it is a partisan exercise that began with a conclusion and proceeded to find evidence to support it?
“The hearings will be viewed in the future as a flawed partisan exercise,” said Steven Schier, a political scientist at Carleton College and co-editor of, published earlier this year. “Her unwillingness to provide political balance on the committee and offer even a shred of fairness and bipartisanship will diminish its credibility and its place in history,” Mr. Khachigian said.
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