Commentary
The January 6 Committee may be Kabuki theater, literally stage-managed by an ex-corporate media executive.
It may prove wholly futile, as House Democrats themselves have seemed to acknowledge. Americans do not seem interested in litigating the Capitol breach 18 months later.
But we ought not to let the cynical spectacle of the hearings distract from the tyrannical nature of the Committee, and how it fits in the Whole-of-Ruling Class War on Wrongthink being waged against Americans.
Now make no mistake: This is a Soviet style show-trial with American characteristics, rigged by the one-sided makeup of the panel, its disregard for Congress’s rules, lack of clear legislative purpose, its badgering of the Department of Justice to put legal force behind its political witch hunt, the characteristically devious ways in which it has operated—for example, in resorting to doctoring leaked documents to smear its political opponents—and, of course, its pre-judgment of January 6 and its causes in every particular. Needless to say this is not, and never remotely resembled from its inception, a good faith fact-finding exercise. This operation epitomizes what the Ruling Class means when it talks about “justice.”…