(L-R) Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), RepresentativeBennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, and Vice Chairwoman Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) listen during a hearing of the committee in the Cannon House Office Building on June 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C.(Alex Wong / Getty Images)
Republicans are accusing the January 6 hearings of being a partisan witch hunt, but I’ve argued that the opposite is true: In the effort to be bipartisan, the hearings have, if anything, underplayed GOP complicity in Trump’s aborted coup.
I do also think the hearings have been an impressive presentation of the evidence, one that establishes Trump’s guilt. Greg Sargent, a Washington Post columnist who has been covering the hearings, has written compelling arguments about how the hearings both point to the dangers to American democracy and offer some solutions for preventing future coup attempts.
I talked with Greg about what we’ve learned from the hearings and the implications they have for the future.
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Jeet HeerTwitterJeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column “Morbid Symptoms.” The author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Prospect, The Guardian, The New Republic, and The Boston Globe.