Will the June public hearings about Jan 6 change any minds?

[captain queeg]

I think it will. Maybe not a huge number, there are those living in their bubbles who will discount the entire thing. And some of those think they have every right to overthrow the election. But let’s not forget that TFG lost by a wide margin in the popular vote and even some who had voted for trump will be appalled by the lawlessness of his (and his followers) actions. Most people will not sit there watching the hearings on TV but there wil be daily recaps. Even faux is going to have a hard time spinning what comes out. Maybe a slow tsunami will finally break thru a lot of deniers. And hopefully those politicians who supported the coup will be identified.

[mucifer]

1. If the economy is crashing and prices are further out of control, people will have a hard time

caring about treason IMO. All will be blamed on the dems.

[rickford66]

2. It will educate those who haven't followed any of it yet and new voters.

Otherwise, minds won't be changed.

[Joinfortmill]

3. Going to 'bring the House down' said Raskin. Yup, big time.

[VarryOn]

8. That's what it's going to take for it to break through...

All the day-to-day noise these days. That said, I have low expectations that many minds will be changed. Polls of top midterm issues don't show much interest in J6.

But, I'm glad Raskin believes they will "bring down the House." I just hope he doesn't mean in a DC Beltway sort of sense where only us highly politicly engaged are impressed.

[edhopper]

4. No

The only people who will watch already think the GOP and Trump are fascist terrorists

[ChoppinBroccoli]

5. To The Extent That There Are Some Still Out There Whose Minds Are Changeable

Anyone whose mind is already made up and slammed shut tight, no, it won't make any difference. But I think you'd be surprised how many people aren't in that "ideologue" category. And maybe there's a contingent that doesn't really know what happened, or didn't follow the story, or shut it out of their minds because they didn't want to deal with it, and this is all new information to them.

So yeah, while I think the percentage of people whose minds are still open to change might be small, it's still worth doing it. Because if they don't hear the actual evidence, they'll have propaganda blared at them by Faux News or right-wing hate radio 24 hours a day and they'll be brainwashed.

[NanceGreggs]

6. Yes, it will.

We tend to forget how many people don't follow politics on a day-to-day basis - especially the "set it and forget it" voters who assume whoever they voted for is just doing what they're supposed to do once in office.

I imagine a lot of people catching the hearings, nightly recaps, et cetera, are going to be shaking their heads and saying, "Good lord, I had NO idea any of this was going on."

I think a LOT of eyes are going to be opened among Republican voters who simply vote GOP out of life-long habit, without really paying attention to what happens between elections.

As I've posted before, I wasn't very political during the Watergate hearings - but it became impossible NOT to be informed. It was the topic of conversation at every party, every bar, every restaurant, in grocery store checkout lines, and over backyard fences.

Sometimes "the news" becomes inescapable, and this is going to be one of those times.

[drray23]

7. not at all.

Those who should watch it won't. I seriously doubt Fox News or OAN is going to broadcast it.

They might take clips out of context to bash it or claim its a witchhunt etc..

[doc03]

9. Very few if any, it is too late now. This is America "it's the economy stupid" nt

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

10. I'm not holding my breath

It will be highly dependent on how things are this summer. If gas hits over $6/gal, inflation doesn't drop noticeably, and everyone's 401k is bleeding red, then no, I don't think anyone outside of those who already care, are going to care. They will be much more concerned with just paying their day to day expenses. At worst, they will actively turn on us for wasting time on something that happened close to a year and half ago instead of trying to help them not lose all their spending money every week. Something like 64% of people live paycheck to paycheck. If they can't absorb these costs then they aren't going to care about much else besides trying to survive and make ends meet somehow.

[Hoyt]

11. They better be sandbagging some hard evidence, or a backlash is a real possibility.

Gonna need a few bombshells that don’t fizzle with 30 seconds of thought.

Tons of evidence trump and associates are unfit for office won’t be enough.

Hopefully, they’ll pull it off.

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. The hearings will be in prime time, so I expect a big audience

Bigger than even the impeachment hearings.

Hoping for a knockout punch, but even a bloody nose for the GOP will be a good start. At minimum, turning voters against the insurrectionists running for office/re-election is critical.