But Democrats argue the hearings will give them a platform for making a broader case about why they deserve to stay in power. It is an uphill battle at a time when polls show that voters’ attention is focused elsewhere, including on inflation, rising coronavirus cases and record-high gas prices. Trump’s effort to overturn the election, and to persuade voters that the coming midterm elections are a chance to hold Republicans accountable for it.
With their control of Congress hanging in the balance, Democrats plan to use made-for-television moments and a carefully choreographed rollout of revelations over the course of six hearings to remind the public of the magnitude of Mr. 6, aiming to tie Republicans directly to an unprecedented plot to undermine democracy itself. Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol with false claims of a stolen election, House Democrats plan to use a landmark set of investigative hearings beginning this week to try to refocus voters’ attention on Jan. Seventeen months after a mob of Donald J. I don’t even really blame the Times for that headline, because theater criticism of a bit of political theater is inevitable and even in one sense appropriate. 6 Hearings Give Democrats a Chance to Recast Midterm Message.” I woke up this morning, and the New York Times has headlined a story “Jan. More than half a century later, what strikes me about my memories - memories are always tricky but they can’t wait - is how all this was just completely normal to me at the time, because how couldn’t it be, given that I had literally no sense of context for any of it? This was just the way the world was: you woke up, went to school, learned that a major political figure had been assassinated the night before and that some grownups seemed upset about it, and so forth.
In regard to the latter I have a very clear memory of discussing this in the most matter of fact way with my friend Jill on the Thurston Elementary School playground in Ann Arbor. My first three clear political memories are of watching LBJ’s announcement that he wasn’t running for re-election, Martin Luther King’s assassination five days later - I still remember my father’s exact words, “han matado a King,” and my mother’s horrified reply “como es posible? (Spanish for “they’ve killed King” - and why is it always “they” in both Spanish and English? - and “how is that possible?”) - and RFK’s assassination a few weeks after that.
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