An attack on democracy FacebookTwitterEmail Supporters of then-President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington on Jan 6. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)Julio Cortez / Julio Cortez/AP THE ISSUE: THE STAKES: ---- For so many reasons, America needs a full and frank study of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. For one reason above all others — congressional Republicans’ blind loyalty to the leader of that insurrection — that may not happen. It’s little surprise, of course, that a party so in the thrall of former president Donald Trump that it twice gave him a pass on impeachable betrayals of his oath of office would do all it could to stymie any effort to shed light on the insurrection he incited in a last-ditch attempt to hold on to power.