Carl BernsteinVerified account

And Trump is doing whatever he can to destroy that system in order to protect himself.

And much of the GOP is lockstep with Trump. Can you imagine what the Republicans of 1974 would think of their GOP successors today? Throwing our own country under the bus for Russian money and ill-gotten power? What did Trump & Putin say or agree on in Helsinki? Why the secrecy?

Only about 26% of the total population self-identifies as Republican. So, if Trump has an 80% approval by Republicans, he's only got about 20% of the total electorate behind him... 25% if you want to be really generous.

But we’ve got to get the majority out to vote.

This next election will determine whether our country survives or not. If there's any controversy over the next election. Things will not go good for our country, And the republicans will go down in history As not even trying to prevent What will happen.

Question I have is will this country have survived even a one term Trump presidency? Pulling out of the Paris agreement, starting and losing a trade war, insulting ( or worse) our allies,basically banning Muslims and ppl from some of the most dangerous places in earth-caging kids

And then there is the quality and ideology of the judges and justices he is appointing. This will take generations to repair.

Forget all the lower court judges too. BO definitely should have spent more time on that. Justice Roberts wrote a lettr pleading 4 more judges (9th circuit esp) to be appointed, as there were many vacancies, while BO was still POTUS. Now DT gets the privilege. 2 r misfortune.

"The heroes of Watergate were Republicans who demanded that the president be held accountable"

And the news media too.

Both seem to be absent now, or in many cases, complicit. Truth and facts mo longer matter. Money and power now drive both the GOP and the majority of the media.

The majority of the media?! Not quite there sweetheart.

Yeah... It was good the Republicans finally caved after the Watergate tapes, but the Dems controlled the House, which is why they were able to investigate enough to get to the tipping point, and also threaten Nixon with impeachment. Dems need the House.

Subtext--The system ain't working now.

The whys for their continued ineptitude and enertia are going to come out eventually (who is extorting them for their own misdeeds?) They need to collectively pull up their adult-sized panties and do their jobs. Besides, the @nra says it’s broke! That should get some movement. – at US Mexico Border Along Rio Grande