One term I probably overuse is “gaslighting”. To no fault of the committee involved, the air surrounding the Jan 6 hearings feels like gaslighting to me. We learned this week that the thing we thought happen did happen. There was an attempted coup by the outgoing president.
I feel gaslit because I am old enough to remember Clinton being impeached for lying about getting a blowjob. There was consternation. There was outrage. Lying about an extramarital blow job is bad, but it’s peanuts when compared to inciting a coup.
There is some consternation, for sure, but where is the outrage? Everyone lost their shit over a god damn blow job, but when a president tries to end democracy, the consensus vibe is “well that happened. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens next.”
