The Morning Dispatch: One Year Later

Plus: The January 6 select committee’s investigation comes into focus.

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Happy Thursday! Let’s all do everything we can to make sure January 6, 2022, is a better day than January 6, 2021. 

And while we’re at it, let’s just go ahead and make 2022 a better year than 2021.

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • The South African Medical Research Council reported Wednesday that, despite a record number of daily COVID-19 cases being recorded in recent weeks, excess deaths in the country peaked at just more than 3,000 per week during the Omicron wave, far below the weekly excess-death peaks of the Beta wave (16,115 last January) and Delta wave (10,000 last July).

  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 fell sharply on Wednesday as the Federal Reserve released minutes from its December meeting showing Federal Open Markets Committee members “generally” believe the central bank may need to raise interest rates “sooner or at a faster pace than participants had earlier anticipated.”

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  1. Kurt Von Fuchs

    There was a book written years ago called everything Trump touches dies. It will count his failed businesses the fact that he's only made money really once in his life and that was by hosting a reality TV show etc. etc. etc.…

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  2. Rob Burke

    I was an OG Never Trumper when I saw him on 60 minutes in the 80s. I was in elementary school and thought he was not a nice man. It made such an impression I remember it to this day.

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  3. Mary

    At first, I thought the narrative was overblown. Insurrection? A few hundred people? However, as I have continued to look into what happened from multiple sides, my horror has grown. There was a group of elected officials, starting with the President, who wanted to overthrow the government. So far, they have not paid the price. I believe that fascism raised its ugly head on the right and now we must guard against a repeat. President Trump did many policy things right, but in the end (and probably before the end), became a traitor. I was glad to see a poll indicating that 69% of Americans believe President Biden (who I loathe) was fairly elected. And thank heavens he was. I saw a story this week that some of those who served President Trump are going to try to get the message out to the rest who are buying into the conspiracy that President Trump must NOT be re-elected. If he tries, we've got to vote him down.

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    Dustin Anglin

    I was flying home that day and just before I left for the airport, reports came in that the mob had stormed the Capitol and that the House and Senate had been evacuated. It was a long flight waiting to hear whether or not homegrown terrorists had succeeded in stopping the democratic process.

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    Douglas Brown

    Why no comment on @AndrewBatesNC ?

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  6. Bill Brockman

    Re today's question: First disbelief, then disgust, then dismay. The latter has persisted, but now for different reasons. At that time, I had supported the Republican Party for many years, despite not voting for Mr. Trump in either election in which he ran. The events of the 6th and those leading up to them started me thinking I could no longer do so because party leaders were showing by their support of Mr. Trump they are not guided by principle but by the love of power. Hence, I changed my official party affiliation to No Party because I continue to believe that in the long run Democratic Party policies will prove ruinous. Thus, my dismay then was due to the fact that I was convinced neither party was fit to govern this (or any) nation. I hoped, however, that a third party might emerge that would be guided by principles--those embraced by the Christian faith. That has not happened. Hence, my present dismay is that thee is no party fit to govern. Worse, the Republican Party has, for the most part, continued to embrace Mr. Trump, sending many young voters to the Democratic Party. By doing so, the Republican Party has virtually assured the Democratic Party will be able to pursue and enact its ruinous agenda in the long run. Fortunately, it appears that at my age--72 years--I just may not live long enough to see this take place completely. On the other hand, I might if the Republican Party continues on its present course.

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    1. Jane_from_CO

      I haven't voted for President since 2012. Only down-ballot.

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      1. Bill Brockman

        I considered that course in each election since that year, too. Ultimately, I found a third party candidate whose platform was pretty consistent with the teachings of my faith and voted for him despite knowing it was a "meaningless" vote since my state was undoubtedly going for Mr. Trump. I imagine that's what I will continue to do. At least then I can say I voted my conscience.

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  7. Jane_from_CO

    I think it was actually January 5th for me. As a lifelong Republican, when my Representative Doug Lamborn announced that he would not vote to confirm the election, I changed my registration to Independent. Then on January 6th, I watched what was happening at the Capitol in disbelief that switched to thinking "these people are crazy", then when I saw the police officer get hit with the flagpole, I went ballistic. Yup, they were crazy. A lesson in the evolution of a mob. Disgusting.

    I forgot to mention that I also wrote Lamborn a scathing letter telling him that HE was the one who caused me to leave the party. Their loss.

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    Show Jay Janney the 🚪!

    Hey does anyone have a spare flux capacitor I can lend to Oregon resident Nick Kristoff? He needs to get in three years of residency since the 2020 elections.

    Forget about donating him money, that flux capacitor is the answer to his problems.

    And if you have a waterproof one for my hot tub, lemme know and we can go halfsies on the gain.

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  9. Harrison.Smith

    Try taking your own advice

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    Citizen60

    A year later, Trump rules, Republican bend their knee to him, and the propaganda machines meant to undermine or destroy our “great experiment in democracy” is praising the authoritarian leader of a destroyed democracy. The Republicans are holding some conference in Hungary this year. That’s the country Republicans want; why the Supreme Court and lower courts were packed. It’s very sad.
    History has shown us what happens when authoritarians and propaganda mix. If Trump wins in 2024, this form of government will not have lasted much longer than Thomas Jefferson predicted—200 years.

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