If the 1/6 committee tossed Bannon and Meadows in the Capitol jail cell, a federal judge would free them by the end of the day, and then the committee would have zero leverage against anyone going forward. The pundits calling for this are either clueless or full of shit.
As always, the pundits are merely trying to position themselves as being smarter and more aggressive than Democratic leaders, whom they (inaccurately) paint as hapless cowards. It’s what they base their brand on. It doesn’t matter that these pundits’ “clever” ideas are laughable.
The pundits know full well that the point of busting Bannon and Meadows is to scare other more skittish witnesses into cooperating, which is working. But if the pundits admit that, then they have nothing to bash the 1/6 committee for, and no way to paint themselves as clever.
If the committee had busted two other witnesses for contempt and it scared Bannon and Meadows into cooperating, the pundits would ignore this cooperation and instead harp on the fact that the two other witnesses aren’t cooperating. The pundits AlWAYS use this particular trope.
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