Having to move on from the January 6 riot will be a blessing in disguise for Democrats. The problem is a bifurcated public sphere where half the electorate inhabits a disjoint reality. The idea that elaborate hearings will get through to them has been repeatedly discredited
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There's an elitist undercurrent, too. If only the ignorant were finally shown the facts, they would repent and listen to us for a change. We need to reach these angry, disaffected voters who resent the highly educated by schooling them
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Finally, there was a strong element of the ridiculous in both the January 6 riot and the overreaction to it, that shines through all attempts to dress it up as a formal "insurrection". Let's not make this another Mueller report; move on, pass popular laws, win elections
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Given that the people who caused January 6 to happen haven't been indicted, what do you mean by overreaction? If they were already on death row I could understand, but so far this is going totally unpunished. And this hasn't hindered Democrats' legislative agenda one bit.
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The Democratic legislative agenda is famously self-hindering
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