Have the January 6 Hearings Mattered?

Susan Glasser: “When the January 6th hearings began, on June 9th, Trump’s average approval rating in the polls was 42.7 per cent, and his average disapproval rating was 53 per cent, according to FiveThirtyEight. As the hearings ended, Trump’s average approval rating stood at 40.4 per cent. All that damning evidence, and the polls were basically unchanged.”

“The straight line in the former President’s approval rating is the literal representation of the crisis in American democracy. There is an essentially immovable forty per cent of the country whose loyalty to Donald Trump cannot be shaken by anything.”