No. of Recommendations: 12
Kinzinger was the speaker who made this point:
He's a perpetrator who can't stop playing the victim.Then he made this comment:
My grandfather fought behind enemy lines against armies. All that we have to do is stand up to one weak man.Ayyyyyyy-men.
The first Watergate burglary took place on May 28, 1972. The burglary that triggered the arrest of the plumbers took place on June 17, 1972. The Washington Post began tracing links from the burglary to the Nixon campaign and the White House in August 1972 leading up to the election. IN LESS THAN ONE YEAR, partcipants in the break-in were convicted. By March 1973, more actions were traced back to top White House staff. Subsequent Congressional investigations and court activities spread into 1974 and finally a showdown occurs in August 1974 and Nixon resigns.
Despite the nature of the crimes and extensive footdragging BY NIXON, the country as a whole did not hold the Republican Party accountable. As the nature of the crimes became apparent, the public maintained its focus on NIXON as the source. Republicans participated equally in the series of Congressional investigations that divulged the entire scope and after Nixon left office, no remaining Republican in office was left tainted by Nixon's crimes. Coulda been anybody. It was our guy this time. We acted, he's gone, what's next?
That's all Republicans had to do with Trump's first impeachment. That's all Republicans had to do with his second impeachment. All they had to do was refuse any calls from area codes 561 and 728 (Palm Beach) and starve the beast of oxygen and he would have faded out of memory.
And they couldn't do that.
In reality, the problem with the above narrative is that the moral and ethical disease that was Nixon was not in fact limited to Richard Nixon and his White House staff. There was a secondary tier of Republicans aiding and abetting those tactics that remained in the Republican Party and continued warping the party's moral compass about election strategy, ends justifying means and exploiting increasing fringe ideas as means for driving disgust and apathy for the process to drive people AWAY from voting.
Remember, Nixon interefered with peace negotiations in Vietnam prior to the 1968 election. Ronald Reagan's team negotiated with the Iranian government to hold the hostages not just untl after the election but all the way to inauguration to maximize the embarrasment to Jimmy Carter and the Democratic brand as a whole as weak and ineffective. And Roger Stone and Paul Manafort met with Russian contacts abroad regarding opportunies to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
https://watchingtheherd.blogspot.com/2020/08/repub...WTH
