January 6 hearings make for gripping TV, but are voters paying attention?
by David Smith in Nashville, Tennessee from US news | The Guardian on (#60H51)
The committee's tightly scripted production has impressed political junkies but Democrats worry many Americans are focused elsewhere
Did you see episode three? The president calls his deputy a pussy" and wimp" for refusing to support his coup. An angry mob then goes after said deputy wanting to hang him. A legal scholar who cooked up the plan asks the president for a pardon.
Thursday's congressional hearing into the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol veered into you-couldn't-make-it-up territory. But while political aficionados were agog, it remained less certain how many citizens were paying attention at lunchtime on a midweek workday.
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