Better? It is not a big deal with me, it is an effective political strategy and it is not at all surprising that this card is being played.

NPR: 2022 06 08...

Jan. 6 committee Chair Bennie Thompson says the U.S. came close to losing democracy

Much better, Thanks. I have sensed - not from pundits, etc., - but from individuals - that they believe that if Mike Pence had gone along with the crime and paused for the substitute electoral slates, that the resulting delay and chaos would've altered our government to where elections become hazardous and thoroughly disputed. I don't think we're close to that - yet.

It is very much am effective political strategy, but it also has a lot of truth to it. Doesn't it Mike?

<smip>For Thompson, preserving democracy today means telling the full story of the attack on the Capitol and ensuring its moment in history is one that Americans never forget.

"I have learned a lot about how perilously close we came on January 6 to losing this democracy as a lot of us have come to know and love it."<snip>