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David Holzman's avatar

This committee was able to maintain just two speakers last night because they all have the same goal, and all recognize it's critical. I'm nearly certain they discussed at length how best to achieve this goal, including who speaks when. It was a very impressive evening.

And I have to say that as much as I know I disagree with Liz Cheney on probably 90-95% of regular policy issues, my respect for her is through the roof.

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Dan Richard's avatar

Excellent take. I was surprised that the hearings had this effect on me: my emotions ran from admiration at the tight and compelling openings, to renewed rage at watching the attack videos, to free-flowing tears at the trauma the police suffered, to disgust at the cowards who defend this, but I ended up, strangely, feeling upbeat. Someone - I don't know who - used a phrase several years ago that kept coming to mind: "the antibodies of democracy are kicking in."

We may not save our democracy, but if we do, what happened last night will go a long way to being the reason why.

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