Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes arrested, charged in Jan. 6 conspiracy

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42. This has a Watergate feel to it unlike

the two impeachments.

I recall plenty of people brushing off Watergate as a "third-rate burglary", then Woodward and Bernstein connected the hush money payments to CREEP and all the different threads started coming together. It took over a year to happen.

The riot on 1/6 has kind of been seen as a one-off event by a bunch of revved up Trumpers, but it's clear now it was much more than that. The white supremicist groups used Trump for their own revolutionary ends maybe more than he used them for his own political gain, but they were also co-opted by Bannon and company. These are the two threads that now appear to be merging.

If the Jan 6th committee can get its public hearings going in primetime after the Olympics, what comes out will have the same political outcome as Watergate with the GOP being wiped out in the mid-terms.