With the Jan. 6 hearings, the GOP fears its time under the spotlight The hearings will expose the corrupt and vitriolic world of right-wing politics. Republicans desperately hope you’ll change the channel.

 

“An absolutely devastating film of footage, much of which we had never seen before,” Jake Tapper said on CNN.

With the Jan. 6 hearings, the GOP fears its time under the spotlight

The hearings will expose the corrupt and vitriolic world of right-wing politics. Republicans desperately hope you’ll change the channel.

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In the lead-up to Thursday’s hearing, Republicans have taken to conservative media outlets to discourage viewers from watching the hearings. Fox News, which has provided a platform to election conspiracy theorists, won’t be airing the hearings live, and Republicans are planning counterprogramming for their followers to watch instead of the hearings. 

Surely, you can sense the desperation. 

For more than a year, the GOP has been allowed to whitewash the events on and ahead of Jan. 6. Many have downplayed the riot’s severity. Others have lionized the mob and spoken highly of some of the defendants charged in connection with it. And a great many more have acted on the mob’s goal — suppressing votes of non-Republicans.