“In the strongly radicalized political climate that characterizes the last 10-15 years of American history this is unlikely to shake extreme Republicans, this is aimed at the undecided or moderate centrists who can take sides with each other.” Thus Gregory Alegi, professor of US History and Politics at the Luiss University in Rome, comments with the Adnkronos on the accusations of attempted coup that have been leveled against Donald Trump during the public hearing of the commission of inquiry on the assault on the Congress.
“Suffice it to say that all the major networks broadcast live except Fox, this gives us the idea that the hard core has already decided”, adds the historian, then underlining that Thursday night was “an audition so to speak, they are a presentation of the results of the preliminary work that has ended and has had enormous dimensions: a thousand people heard, over 100 thousand pages of documents, plus, because we are in the 21st century, an enormous quantity of videos, of images “.
The Democrats have now decided to present the results of this investigation in a series of public hearings because “with the polls that give them losers in November they want to consolidate the results and at best use them to record an authentic version of how they went. the facts, in the worst version to influence the elections “.
The objective of the commission is to be able to bring “the awareness that there is material for a criminal investigation” that goes beyond the material participants in the assault of January 6, 2021: “up to now they have been investigated, indicted 800 participants, there are some convictions, there are some settlements, this is the famous political level, that is to say whether they went spontaneously or there was an orchestration “.
“The core is to see how such a traumatic event for democracy, not just American, seeing the attack on Parliament is traumatic for any democracy, it was not a fact of spontaneous anger but it was a fact designed, planned, articulated, orchestrated” , adds Alegi.
With regard to the comparison that many are making with the 1973 hearings on Watergate, the historian explains that at the time the hearings “were live, the citizen learned things as the commission learned them, these – he reiterates – are actually presentations of the results; they are part of a world in which there has been disintermediation I speak directly to the citizen I no longer rely on the journalist who explains it to me “. “As a historian, I am happy because we are getting a lot of material for historical reflection in a short time” continues Alegi, who, however, has doubts about whether, from a political point of view, the bet of the Democrats on the results of the commission can “alone fill the many difficulties, from inflation to the resumption of migratory pressure on the southern borders “and the increase in petrol, issues that play against them in view of the November elections.
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