The January 6 hearings are damning. But Republicans don’t care | Robert Reich

The January 6 hearings are damning. But Republicans don't care and Trump's attempted coup continues unabated

We tragically fool ourselves if we believe that the televised hearings of the January 6 committee will change the Republican party or end Trump's attempted coup.

The Republican party is becoming ever more divorced from reality, and Trump's attempted coup continues unabated.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com