# Jan 6 Hearings Follow-Along & Commentary Thread (Starts Jun 9, 2022)

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**Created:** [June 9, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940 "2022-06-09T22:34:49Z")\
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> [@Dahnlor](#):
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> I don’t think we would ever see any significant change in positions regarding guns and abortion as a result of these hearings, so I consider these developments to be irrelevant in that regard.
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> The point isn’t to get Republicans to stop supporting Republican wedge issues, the point is to steer Republicans away from unwittingly allowing our democracy to be threatened.

That’s not really what I’m saying, though.

Assuming, arguendo, that there are some people who might possibly abandon their plan to vote for Trump again if he is on the ballot in the General (ie, vote for the nominee of another party or do not vote at all).

Assuming that some of those people may be questioning a preference for Trump based on what they are learning from the J6 hearings.

My argument is that some % of those people may simply snap back to “any Republican that gets the nomination, _including_ Trump” based on the recent decisions regarding guns and abortion. For them it brings home that Trump and the Republicans represent me and my values and are the only thing standing between me and … well … I laid it out [**here**](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-democrats/955842/64).

IOW: I believe that some people may have been swayed, _if only a little_ by the J6 hearings thusfar. I also – sadly – believe that they may be coming “back home to their party” based on a solid gun victory (as they see it) and a solid pro-life victory (as they see it).

And while I agree with the logic of the arguments that a couple of you have made, I would also argue that it’s irrelevant. IMHO, anybody who’s still leaning heavily toward voting for Trump – should he be the nominee – is simply not operating on anything even remotely resembling logic – at least not as I understand it.

IMHO, we’re back to “you cannot use reason to talk somebody out of something that they didn’t use reason to believe in the first place.”

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