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JAN. 6 PITTED A CONSPIRACY OF RINOS AGAINST A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES


THE LATTER’S THEORY HAS IT THAT THE MOST DEPENDABLE TRUMP SUPPORTERS PLOTTED TO
DENY HIS RE-ELECTION.

FORMER WHITE HOUSE LAWYER ERIC HERSCHMANN IS DISPLAYED ON A SCREEN DURING THE
JAN. 6 INVESTIGATION IN WASHINGTON, JUNE 16.

Photo: Tom Brenner - Pool via CNP/Zuma Press
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Gerard Baker
June 20, 2022 4:52 pm ET

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Conspiracy theories demand a suspension of disbelief from their subscribers that
almost always collapses under the intolerable weight of their own simple
insanity. If the hearings of the congressional committee on the Jan. 6 attack
achieve little else, they are a reminder of that enduring truth.

Like many viewers, I suspect, I have found the antics of the Democrats in these
proceedings dispiriting. Through her instinctual hyperpartisanship, Speaker
Nancy Pelosi has nearly succeeded in turning what should have been a thorough
investigation of the causes of that terrible event into a show trial of her
political enemies. Keeping critics off the committee and letting its proceedings
be run without a word of dissent undermines its legitimacy and persuasive force.
And if the past few years have taught us anything they have surely taught us
that any process in which Adam Schiff is prominently involved is discredited
almost by definition.

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