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Francine Prose, Lloyd Green, Simon Balto and Geoffrey Kabaservice

How was the first January 6 hearing? Our panel weighs in

House January 6 Select Committee Hearing in DC<br>epaselect epa10005092 A video of former US President Donald J. Trump speaking on 06 January is played as Vice Chairperson and Republican Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming delivers her opening remarks during the select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol attack in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington DC, USA, 09 June 2022. The committee will hold at least five more public hearings in the coming weeks. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO
‘ We were that close to a coup, that close to the overturning of our democracy.’ Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Francine Prose: ‘We narrowly escaped a far worse disaster’

There’s a very particular, very specific chill we feel when our worst suspicions have been confirmed, when our darkest fears and imaginings turn out to be mere shadows of reality. I – and many others, I assume – felt that chill while watching the first installment of the report on the hearings of the House Select Committee on the January 6 insurrection.

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