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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's extremist plan for January 6th to be explored in new hearing [1]

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Date: 2022-07-12

We’ve all heard the Democratic Party stalwarts and cable TV pundits who complain that, no matter what the hearings reveal, the 2022 midterm elections will be decided by voters who are primarily worried about inflation, the prospect of a recession, and perhaps even a serious resurgence of the coronavirus. Those issues matter a great deal, and it is good to remember that the Watergate controversy played out against a backdrop of economic turbulence that did Nixon’s approval ratings considerable harm. But Raskin is right when he says that Trump is in a league of his own when it comes to presidential abuses of office. Tuesday’s hearing will establish the link between Trump’s antidemocratic ambitions and the coup plotting that will ultimately mark him as a traitor to his oath “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

On a final note, speaking of extremists, Kat Bouza at Rolling Stone analyzes Tucker Carlson’s love of 4chan extremism:

Days after a 4chan user claimed to have hacked Hunter Biden’s iCloud backup account, Tucker Carlson took to the airwaves Monday evening to bestow subtle praise upon the notorious online forum — which has long been a breeding ground for hate speech and has inspired (and lavished praised upon) several mass shootings.

While the Fox News host only briefly touched upon 4chan’s existence, labeling it as a “website of last resort for people who want to get information out there but can’t” is exactly the sort of right-wing dogwhistle intended to funnel the network’s viewers into 4chan’s murky depths. With a namedrop of this magnitude, it’s only a matter of time before your Boomer-aged aunt who still shares anti-Hillary Clinton memes on Facebook wanders into the shitposting cesspool that is /pol/, 4chan’s political forum.

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