| The House-select-committee hearings are over, but will the former President ever be held responsible for the tragedy?  Photograph by Alex Wong / Getty The House select committee investigating January 6th has demonstrated that Donald Trump knew he lost the 2020 election; that he knew the mob he had ordered to the Capitol was capable of violence and determined to block Congress from certifying the results; that he was aware that his own Vice-President’s life was in danger; and that he showed little interest in helping to stop the assault after it began. And yet, as Susan B. Glasser writes in her latest column from Washington, as the committee ends its public hearings, there remains “an essentially immovable forty per cent of the country whose loyalty to Donald Trump cannot be shaken by anything.” This stubborn approval rating, she adds, “is the literal representation of the crisis in American democracy.” Is there any reason for hope? Glasser examines what greater purpose the hearings have served and what might be left to hold the former President accountable. —Ian Crouch, newsletter editor Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | 
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