I'm not sure if we're splitting hairs or having a substantive disagreement, but FWIW:brettac1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 11:28 amLess of witnesses describing/soliloquizing his actions and the story of his day and more of a sober telling of history. Pence is a Christian nationalist. He is himself a force of evil. The people that worked for/around him share that worldview.beantownbubba wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 11:17 amI'm not sure what else the Committee could or should have done. In terms of legitimate inquiry, historical record and political considerations, the better Pence looks, the worse Trump, Eastman and the rest of the cabal (and to some extent, the supposed Trump "team normal") look, and that's really the point of the exercise. And if you're trying to show how close we came to full on melt-down, an heroic Pence standing tall against the forces of evil is almost necessary to tell that story, because if he didn't step up big then the threat was arguably not that great.
Certainly one of the worst developnents of the social media age is that large portions of the country seem to have the memory of a goldfish.
To the extent we're talking about presentation, that's mostly a detail to me. But as long as we're talking about it, I didn't see Thursday's hearing, but in general, telling the story through witnesses, especially impeccably Republican, Trump administration affiliated witnesses, is better than a monologue from a committee member(s), sober or not.
We should distinguish between different forces of evil. IMHO, Forces of Evil I are those who threaten the structure of the country and rule of law. Pence showed himself to be very much non-evil on that one. Forces of Evil II are people who actively oppose the things I care about, generally on non-substantive, non-rational, hypocritical bases. Pence is quite a good fit there, but right now the fight is against Forces of Evil I. To anticipate a possible response, it doesn't matter if my ally against FoE I is my opposition on FoE II. As they used to say, politics makes for strange bedfellows.