The January 6 committee isn’t strictly speaking partisan, but it is monochromatic. It would have been better served by having some dissenting voices. Yes, the Democrats and the media would have been highly annoyed by, say, Jim Jordan, and he would have made the workings of the committee more difficult. But he, and a few Republicans like him, would have acted as a basic fairness check. They would have added an element of true drama (breaking: conflict sells). They might have caused more voters friendly to Trump actually to tune in. And to the extent that there is anyone still persuadable about this event, they would presumably have forced the committee to pay more attention to January 6 counternarratives that are out there and that the committee should want to address (and, if possible, debunk). Instead, Democrats opted to take a shortcut and what they believed is the easy way out.