1. As we head towards the Senate trial it's useful to put Trump's impeachment in some perspective, which means recognizing that the outcome Watergate was the exception, not the norm. Successful Cover-ups are more common than president's being held to account.
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4. Let's take former Trump official KT McFarland (a Deputy National Security Advisor) at her word. What we have are 4 cases of GOP soliciting foreign interference in a presidential election: Nixon 1968, Reagan (allegedly) 1980, Trump 2016, and Trump 2019.
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5. In each of these cases -- three of which are beyond dispute and one murkier -- GOP closed ranks to cover-up a scandal. As I argue in the Nation, that's the real norm, not the Watergate anomaly of a president forced to resign: https://www.thenation.com/article/nixon-impeachment-mcfarland-pardon/ …
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