Was January 6th Really a Coup?

The first time I watched a Congressional committee hold a public hearing on the misconduct of a President was almost 50 years ago, when I watched the Watergate hearings in 1973. If you’re not at least 70 years old today, you may have read about those hearings, but you didn’t see them. I did.

Know what the real difference was between those hearings and the hearings that are going on in D.C. right now? The difference is, at least in my mind, that a lot of people who voted for Nixon or liked Nixon or whatever, changed their minds about Nixon when Alexander Butterfield sat down in the witness chair and described the Oval Office taping system that Nixon had installed.

Don’t get me wrong. I come from a long line of Nixon haters. My parents hated Nixon from back in 1950 when he red-baited Helen Gahan Douglas and won his Senate seat.

But let’s remember what I do for a living. I’m in the gun business, so most if not nearly all the gun nuts I know voted For Trump. You think these guys have lost any belief in Trump as their main man? Think what the Select Committee has told us about Trump’s alleged involvement in the plans leading up to January 6th would make them spend one minute wondering if they would vote for him in 2024? Think again.

The fact that the U.S. Congress and the Vice President were able to carry out their…