This segment of the Jan. 6 hearings probably was gratuitous. By that I mean showing Josh Hawley fleeing for his life from the mob isn’t necessary to explain to the American people that Trump was derelict during the violent attack on the Capitol. But it’s understandably too juicy to ignore, and frankly he had it coming. The Kansas City Star editorial writers didn’t pull punches: They called him “a laughingstock” and predicted this video “will surely follow him the rest of his life.” (You can read the entire editorial here.) If politics these days has indeed been reduced to what some are calling “performance art,” all I can say is this performance was for the ages.