It is yet another morning after. But as you stare at your bathroom mirror, on this Wednesday morning after Tuesday’s hearing, it somehow feels as if you are staring at just another news screen. And this one just keeps looping more bad news you can’t bear to see.
Like one-third of Americans, you’ve always been proud to call yourself one of our 45th president’s MAGA Trumpers. You are, of course, the face and politics of that person in your mirror. It is you, a proud Trump enabler. Just as you are proud to be a college graduate with a successful professional career.
But on this Wednesday morning, the more you stare at the face in the mirror, the more it seems to morph into that other face you saw on your news screen Tuesday and came to admire more than you dare to admit. It was the face of the young woman who seemed to be single-handedly rewriting JFK’s Pulitzer-winning “Profiles in Courage” as she testified before the House hearing on the horrific events of Jan. 6, 2021. She soon seemed far more mature, more patriotic and more emotionally together than the panicky, pathetic much older men who were her bosses: President Donald Trump, his chief of staff Mark Meadows and deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato.
