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Truth and Punishment

History will judge. History will judge. History will judge.

Those were the words that kept ringing in my head as my teenager and I began to watch the January 6 hearings. It was surreal, seeing Donald Trump once more commanding his supporters to “fight like hell.” It was shocking and yet entirely unsurprising to hear Cassidy Hutchinson describe the abuse Trump heaped on subordinates when they failed to accede to his putschist demands.

When these proceedings are shown in classrooms one day, I wondered, will people

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