Op-Ed: Help Wanted – On Jan. 6 Committee, Trump Supporters Need Not Apply

Donald Trump’s rise to the White House in 2016 — defeating 16 Republican primary opponents, including five senators and nine governors, to win that party’s nomination, and then proceeding to send the vaunted Clinton political machine into permanent retirement in the general election — was a nightmare not only for Democrats, who had expected to coronate Hillary Clinton, but also for NeverTrump Republicans, who realized their country club wing of the party was fast going the way of the dodo bird and the video rental store.

These two stalwarts of the major party establishment duopoly, along with much of the mainstream media, fell into deep despair.

Most astonishingly, educators across America gave their classrooms (not kindergarteners, but college students!) coloring books and cuddle puppies to cope with their grief. If it wasn’t so pathetic, it would be hilarious.

The unholy alliance recently converged for a House select committee, handpicked by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to examine the U.S. Capitol incursion of Jan. 6. Of the nine committee members, seven are Democrats.

Chairman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who has publicly accused Trump of inciting the melee and sued him for it, is joined by Elaine Luria of Virginia, who on Jan. 7 tweeted that Trump “must be removed from office immediately.”

Then there’s Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who served as lead manager of Trump’s second impeachment — you know, the one whose trial didn’t take place until after Trump was already out of office.

But it wouldn’t be an anti-Trump all-star team without Adam Schiff of California, the lead manager of Trump’s first impeachment (which, like the second, resulted in acquittal), and his able assistant and fellow Californian Zoe Lofgren, who