republicans taking the expected position that republican presidents can do as much crime as they likehttps://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1359262307130503174 …
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one of the real unvarnished goods produced by the era of liberal consensus media.
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Didn't Nixon hate most elites in his own party too? Expressly not in the club? I wonder if that had something to do with it.
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It could happen if they had a VP they liked and trusted, as the 1974 group had with Ford.
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Ford had a really hard primary battle against Reagan after his first term (like 1100 delegates vs 1000 delegates). Underlying it: Ford had pardoned Nixon, implying there were crimes to be pardoned for, Reagan basically thought Nixon had done nothing wrong.
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Nixon was not long after the post-Johnson R/D shift began, when there were still liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats.
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And before the R party had become completely synonymous with movement conservatism.
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you can make a strong case that the entire story of republican politics since 1974 is a crusade to vindicate nixon and make sure republican presidents can do watergates to their hearts content without any sanction or consequence
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It is. Fox News was started by a Nixon aide to protect corrupt Republicans from Nixon’s fate. It worked.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/roger-ailes-nixon-gawker-documents/352363/ …
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It was a time when sides were more blurred.
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It was still only 7 for and 10 against by the judiciary committee.
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