Monday Motivation — Congress actually doing something!

Let’s hope Congress actually continues to do something surprisingly good so far — the Jan. 6 hearings.

I have to say I’m shocked that the Jan. 6 hearings are being televised and discussed so prominently in the media. There are also reports that the commission consulted with media experts to make the agenda and coverage of the hearings as effective as possible for television.

I had given up hope that anything substantive would happen about the insurrection on January 6. But hearings so far have featured footage that shows it was Trump supporters who did the insurrection, and testimony from Trump’s closest advisors that he was at the least aware of and did nothing to stop it before and as it was happening. Last week, in prime time even!

Which is probably why Fox News didn’t televise the first day live, and I’m guessing any future coverage will be brief and immediately “debunked” falsely and spun afterwards.

I’m still doubtful the people in power who are most responsible for the very literal attack on our democracy — both in terms of stealing the vote and fomenting a violent riot — will be held truly accountable.

But it’s not being swept under the rug either, which it seemed like was all the Jan. 6 commission and media was going to do.

So my Monday Motivation is that (occasionally) Congress and the media are able to do the right thing — publicly holding and covering hearings about the biggest attack on our democracy in modern history — and they should be given credit and encouraged when they do.

Now, we need to push Congress to actually hold the people who were responsible — or knew and stood and didn’t come forward — accountable legally, and for media to hold them accountable in the public square.