Name: Why is 1/6 a really powerful story?
Uploaded: 2022-06-26T12:21:25.398390+00:00
Duration: 1931 s
Channel: The Lincoln Project
Description: Heather Cox Richardson goes over the January 6th Hearings.

Heather Cox Richardson goes over the January 6th Hearings.

<p>Heather Cox Richardson goes over the January 6th Hearings.</p>

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Why is 1/6 a really powerful story?

How Liz Cheney became so important to the 1/6 hearings

Why are fascism and authoritarianism on the uprise?

What is positive nostalgia?

The Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol was an attack on those who have fought and died for our democracy. Lisa Senecal and Maya May welcome author and historian Heather Cox Richardson to We’re Speaking to put our current crisis in context. Wednesday at 7p ET.

<p>The Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol was an attack on those who have fought and died for our democracy. Lisa Senecal and Maya May welcome author and historian Heather Cox Richardson to We’re Speaking to put our current crisis in context. Wednesday at 7p ET.</p>

https://d3ev5earl6dvd0.cloudfront.net/public-media/videos/004/008/004008/video_tyFI9ij.mp4

The way the Cheney hearing is being handled is very well done and Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson are doing a great job

The weaponisation of gangs in the 19th century and the 20th century to try and create fascism and authoritarianism in the US and Europe is something worth paying attention to in our history.

President Obama tapped into a different type of nostalgia,  a positive one, which is about the principles of self determination and the idea that America is built on those principles.

Why is 1/6 a really powerful story?

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