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    Watching the Jan. 6 hearings through the lens of both accountability and healing

    Julia Roig
    June 29, 2022
    Cassidy Hutchinson

    Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies before the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection Tuesday.

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    Roig is the chief network weaver atThe Horizons Project and the chair of the board of theAlliance for Peacebuilding.

    “How did we get to this point?”

    That’s how the third day of the Jan. 6, 2021, hearings began on June 16. Many Americans are asking the same question, with a mix of exhaustion, exasperation and alarm that our country has devolved to the heightened levels of violence and dysfunction that the select committee has outlined thus far. It has been painful to rewatch the violence that took place at the Capitol, but also to hear the personal stories of the violent threats and intimidation unleashed on elections officials and poll workers throughout the country.

    One of the thorniest questions of our times is: How will we come together to reckon with the clear and present danger of the growing authoritarian threat in the United States, while also healing a fractured nation dealing with collective trauma, distrust, outrage and despair? The answer is that we must do both. While there are clearly urgent legal and political imperatives required in the short term, actions and organizing focused on truth-telling and justice will not be unfolding in a vacuum. They must form the foundations needed for long-term cultural and institutional transformations to take place.

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