Two thoughts on sort of big picture takeaways from #January6thCommittee Final Report. 1)It is focused. You'll hear a lot about how detailed it is, but it is also focused, like a bullseye. It does not stray or get distracted with all the other Trump stuff. 1/
It is laser focused on the peaceful transfer of power, or lack thereof. 2)There is a theme that links all the chapters that can seem on different subjects; I had an editor once call it "connective tissue." That connective tissue is that all key players knew what the other were 2/
doing AND they all understood their piece of the plan. The fake electors, the lawyers, the violent insurrectionists. They needed TIME; that was what 1/6 was about. It was about giving them more time; the violence had a purpose and all understood that. 3/
Finally 3)Chapter 6 is about the incitement but it doesn't stand alone. The Report begins with the Big Lie instead. The Big Lie isn't just about January 6th; it is about a whole apparatus that was radicalizing to deny the peaceful transfer of power. 4/
Chapter 6, about Trump directing the violence, is just a piece of a larger plan. Anyway, there are a lot of details and more to learn, but as a narrative that's my first take. 5/5
*I guess it was 3 thoughts!
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