David Frum/Atlantic: Steve Bannon Knows Exactly What He’s Doing The fight over January 6 is about much more than the law. Does anyone still remember the Chicago Seven? They were a disparate group of radicals—some who knew each other, some who didn’t—who went to the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 to spark trouble. Trouble did indeed erupt, although maybe not the exact trouble they had wanted. They were indicted and prosecuted. And then things went terribly wrong for the government. The prosecution thought it was running a trial, a legal proceeding governed by rules. The defendants decided that they would instead mount a new kind of media spectacle intended to show total contempt for the rules, and to propagandize the viewing public into sharing their contempt. The prosecution was doing law; the defense countered with politics. The indictment of Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress is the opening bell of a similar kind of fight over law, justice, and authority.  xIn abandoning peaceful transfer of power, Trump and his allies reject 224 years of history. https://t.co/DJtN6NbS89— Jill Lawrence (@JillDLawrence) November 14, 2021 Read more