The right wing extremist January 6, 2021 coup only partially failed. Those members of the House of Representatives that were part and parcel of the coup, helping to plan and execute the coup, have been reelected in November, and are now on key committee positions in the new House of Representatives.
It is very good news that the bulk of the “Election Deniers” were rejected by the voters, but key insurrectionists are in the House now.
What happens when those who planned the insurrection, and we’re being investigated by the January 6 committee, are now in charge of the same committees? The answer is obvious, the criminals will conduct false investigations of those who were investigating them.
Democracy is still under threat by authoritarian, autocratic fascists. They call themselves Republicans, but the Republican party that I was once a member of has been killed by these extremists long ago.
My hope and expectation is that these people are so blatantly unpleasant, nasty, unattractive, and unfair that they destroy themselves and open the possibility for the Republican Party to once again become the Republican Party rather than the anti-democracy, autocratic, theocratic, oligarchical, Qanon party that it is today.
