Imho, if Ford had not pardoned Nixon, we would never have had the issues with tfg. He figured if Nixon got away with crimes in office, he could do it too.
All this egregious criminal behavior done by republicans over the past 50+ years, and some voters STILL haven’t learned. Why does this rampant criminal political party still exist?!
Because racism, greed, misogyny and hate can sustain a party funded by billionaires, with outsized political power because of rich white racists in 1789, SCOTUS racists in the 21st century and gerrymandering. The GOP should have gone the way of the Whigs long ago.
Perhaps, but who started any of them, and why? Eisenhower warned America to fear military-industrial complex in 1961. Following WEII and Korea, there have only been Presidential actions, not Congressional declarations of war, for some really dumb and continually changing reasons. Fear of Communism replaced fear of Fascism to create Korea and the Cold War. Then the USSR died along with a fear of Communism, then Kosovo, etc, followed by 9/11 and retribution against Bin Ladin, then a cooked up absurd story about WMD created a fear Iraq and Hussein and the Taliban, and so on. Bush II needed some political survival help and cooked up the WMD story from whole cloth to be seen as a wartime president reelection. The constant factor in all of this was the military-industrial complex need for continual war to fuel its machinery, and profits. What’s particularly complex about all of that?
It's very sad though there are SO many who are either unaware or have decided to turn a blind eye to all of this corruption. My maga friend was visiting the other day. We rarely talk politics bc we'd not have a friendship if we did. Scotus came up though and I was floored by how little she actually knew! Instead she could only respond with Fox talking points or admitted she just didn't know. I ended the conversation by telling her to please for once check other news besides fox! She won't and even if she did she'd still stick with her beliefs.
With the current corrupt Supreme Court, it will be far worse than when Watergate was happening. Look what they did with the Gore/Bush election and in just one day!
It’s all a giant pyramid scheme with the 10 or 15 top billionaires in the world controlling at the top. Next level down are the judges, federal and state and the corrupt money grabbing politicians( mostly far right republicans) all the way down through several more levels to the bottom racist, religious nuts, gun nuts, anti immigration nuts, low IQ people, angry old white people and the brainless Fox News, Newsmax and AM radio station cultists.
The farther down you go, the more gullible, ignorant, bigoted and apathetic you get.
Yep. I agree. Thank you for posting what seems very reasonable to me. I am trying to start communicating without using the word “truth.” As Socrates concluded he KNEW NOTHING. This includes the truth. However, this didn’t stop him from reason based upon experience.
When you read this Report, it is almost like you're having some incredibly bad nightmare about the state of our national political situation in this country. Trying to understand and make any sense of where our country has ended up over the past 9 to 10 years is almost incomprehensible. The Federal judicial system and SCOTUS has dragged it's feet over the past 3 years in terms of prosecuting what have been heinous crimes against our democracy. We should not have had to wait until the Nov. 5th presidential election to vote the fascist dictator Trump out of our lives forever. Some major changes in both the Federal and State judicial systems needs to be developed if we are going to save the country.
The electoral college was built into the Constitution, due to the compromise between the signers and founders, for the issue at hand. They didn't like "democracy", in its purest form, or majority/popular vote and the electoral college has proven to be the Constitution's biggest flaw. It needed to be banished long ago as the population grew.
The internet wasn't alive in Watergate's era. Watergate didn't involve a foreign adversary helping a candidate win by interference, that I'm aware of, and Reagan had yet to start to erode the middle class by cutting corporate taxes by over 50%. Nixon began it but Reagan nailed the coffin closed. The anger of not achieving what was then achievable wasn't near as prevalent to make an entire party, comprised of people/humans, turn into the MAGA nut camp from the base to Capitol Hill.
Nixon still left office with just over 25% approval rating and Ford made a grave error. Now, the third branch of the government is making the gravest of errors. Sending voters to their misinformed unfortunate demise as they cast a vote for Trump without knowing he's guilty or innocent (of course he's guilty) of the crimes indicted by a grand jury of normal Americans.
The base wants to own a woke lib while Trump's tax/tariff plan will destroy those very people first and hardest. Decency hides in the dark corners of the dark web and with AI. Meaning there is no decency. People had three options to turn to, to hear about Watergate, and now they have 3000X times that.
Projection, is the populist, and the populist is but the fool willing to do what was started 5 decades ago for conservative theocratic billionaires.
The Atlantic, yesterday, wrote an article defending journalism, especially pointing to The Times and the WSJ. They have every right to do so but they failed to make the biggest and most glaring dereliction an issue. The way the articles are structured and the headlines are written are journalistic malfeasance. Most people tend to read a headline and a paragraph or two. If the point of "Trump's donations trouncing Biden's" aren't re-worded and explained panic sets in. They fail at the simplest of simple and they DO NOT get a pass for that.
This election is about the grandiosity of a man who is haunted by his past, his father, and now the system he feels treated him unfairly. Believe me, after 5+ decades, Trump knows he's no victim and knows his money is what the two tiered justice system is. He's been learning this for a long time.
It is nice to say "I'll get back to you on that topic or this topic" after 8 years but if no one understands that he doesn't need policy statements when he is the policy that's a problem. Fear, if nothing more, should drive everyone to the polls in November for Biden. Old, but capable of far more than I could imagine and he's 40 years my senior. Harris can lead because she can listen and she is smart and capable. Trump and whatever hack he chooses are not.
Project 2025 and its 902 pages is a must read for anyone not understanding the end goal. Forget polls. Forget deep fakes. Give people websites, screenshots and reminders of what happened in his first term for the economy now, his justices, his failure to protect 1.25M dead Americans, took troops off the border of Syria, lied about servicemen and women coming home who he wouldn't allow the Purple Heart because he wanted his lie, no one got hurt, to be believed, and the money and equity stocks he and Mnuchin took when bailing out the travel industry. Oh, so much more.
Biden needs to have Fireside Chats, on social media, every week. No moderators, no audience. Just Biden talking about facts, acknowledging people's concerns, and debunking the conspiracies. HEAD ON STYLE. It'd work. He'd be the first POTUS to do something this powerful on the internet. Obama had the first Facebook page but he didn't need to get across to the people like Biden does and curiosity, if nothing else, will bring traffic. Biden isn't bombastic but he's got the ammunition. We can't lose this moment.
If I remember correctly, and that may be questionable, the Watergate prosecution was really a response to Nixon's bad handling of Vietnam coupled with the way Nixon's people treated the Democrats in the 1972 election. I think Nixon could have walked away from Watergate had he not been so underhanded and spiteful in that election.
Anyway, by the time all was said and done in 1974, the spite Democrats had for Nixon had diminished. I, for one, no longed cared what was done to Nixon after he resigned and was removed from office. He took his medicine and swallowed it like a man while heading off to Florida to spend his final years taking the country's hate with him. No need to put him in the pen.
It's a totally different story concerning the latest Repub immoral, unethical fascist. If, and hopefully, when he's found guilty for his myriad of crimes, Trump must be ordered to serve as much time as he's earned. We need to punish him, and he needs to serve as a symbol for the future for what will happen to the next Repub who tries to win by "whatever means is necessary." Trump and his acolytes must be locked up for a long time in a harsh penitentiary so that, hopefully, no one in the future will attempt to play outside the box ever again lest they be caught and stashed away out of sight and behind bars. Trying to steal an election must be treated with the seriousness that it deserves. Play by the rules or else- goodbye you dirty rotten scoundrels.
Nixon crucified McGovern hideously which makes Watergate and all the other dirty tricks his team pulled all the more ridiculous. Many right wing dirty tricksters got their start working for Trickie Dick. I give you Roger Stone who cut his teeth on Nixon. Nixon was a paranoid fool which, ultimately, was his downfall.
I like your comparison here, Dean, to take this even further... We've got a Supreme Court and right wing media that far surpasses anything seen in the Nixon administration ! Donald's lawlessness goes beyond anything I've ever seen in my lifetime,or in history?! We really are in Uncharted territory here. This is for anyone who wants to keep our Democracy, Vote Blue down the ballot and encourage everyone to do the same.(be sure to check your voter registration!!!) again, Dean, thanks for sharing this most important topic! Brilliant 👍💯
Thank you for telling me about Watergate, I didn't know anything about it, I've only been interested in US politics since trump was a candidate in 2015/16 to date.
Trump, the narcissist that he is, surely Must go to prison or there'll be a public outcry. Whether now or after he loses the election he Has to go, I just hope Judge Merchan gives the only justice trump deserves.
Every time I listened to him on TV I could smell sulphur and see dark swirling clouds of evil. OK, only in my imagination. He was one of the darkest among all the darkness Trump surrounded himself with.
Nevertheless, it seemed like following some natural law in humanity like attracts like and everyone around Trump seemed either dark, or unprincipled in ambition all the way to the naïveté of simple true believers. Trump is an evil Oz behind a curtain attracting the evil, the duplicitous, the greedy and the silly true believers.
With our corrupted legal system I’m not positive we can survive this. BUT WE MUST KEEP TRYING.
Is Boris Epshteyn worse that Stephen Miller? I don't know a whole lot about him except seeing him on MSNBC during the 2016 election. What I remember is that he wouldn't answer questions and would never shut up, always talking over the host.
I thought about Miller as I was writing my comment. Boris comes across to me as a very dark mobster. Miller comes across to me as a bright but suck ideologue who was picked on as a children and he is getting his revenge. They are both evil but Miller is weaker, much like Trump.
Very interesting. You clearly know more about Boris than I do. I feel fortunate that I have not had to experience him lately. Thank you for supporting my gut reaction to Boris.
Damn I hate autocorrect. Hopefully the essence of what I do. Susan, your note just flashed on my iPad but only for a moment so I’ll have to read it when done with this comment.
I do not know Boris. However, I seem to have very good antennae about people. Boris is a thug.
Dean you are my one of my favorite guests on MSNBC. You always know what you're talking about and you'll always have the right answer. And you always have a smile and a laugh and watching you just makes people feel good keep on telling the truth
Dean, there is one point I have different information on, from what you said: my understanding is that Roger Stone had his sentence commuted, that he was not pardoned. I agree that trump's crimes are far worse than Nixon's.
"There's one little thing that we think you should know,
Whatever we say isn't quite what we mean,
We're Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean."
This was a verse from a song playing on the radio, my senior year at the U of Mn. Many of us watched most of the Watergate proceedings, before Congress, of the Special Council's case for impeachment in the U's student union.
The Nixon pardon was a gross miscarriage of justice that has haunted the nation to this Despite GOP attempts at rewriting history.
It has resulted in steadily escalating corruption & a sense of entitlement within the GOP, just as many of us suspected would be the case, at the time.
Post Watergate corruption began with the GOP call to arms, outlined by the Powell Memo, a libertarian manifesto written by SC Justice-in-waiting, Lewis Powell. From there it progressed to the Reagan anti-union and the Geckonian "greed is good" movement.(A narcissistic movement if ever there was one.) From Reagan the GOP upped the ante with the Lee Atwater spawned, Willy Horton type dirty tricks and Newt Gingrich's training in how to direct wartime propaganda at political rivals, training GOP followers to hate the opposition. Tagging the opposition with hyperbolic names like socialist, communist & Godless. Attempting to turn liberal into a dirty word.
It was all part of a "vast right wing conspiracy" financed by GOP wealthy donors. With heavy emphasis on the word conspiracy. (Many of the GOPs subversive tricks were learned thru observation of USSR & Russian subversive activity.)
Mitch McConnell began his efforts to capture the judicial branch in 1990. By 2000 SCOTUS was stacked far enough to the right that they could illegally intervene in Bush v Gore, to inappropriately crown G.W. Bush. This resulted in a voter backlash that helped elect Obama. Most should still remember how McConnell filibustered Obama's judicial nominees to save appointments for the next Republican president.
Finally, we get to the hands down, most corrupt president in US history, number 45. A jury found that he defrauded voters by conspiring to capture & kill news about his infidelity and turned it into one of 34 felonies by cooking the books of his business to cover it up.
He has been convicted of rape and defrauding a charity. He has been charged with fraud, witness tampering, obstruction, election interference and racketeering, just to name a few of his many crimes.
Luck of the draw provided him with a Trump appointed, corrupt judge that could drag her feet in adjudicating his document theft/espionage case. The implications for US damage from this crime require a high level of urgency.
If Judge Cannon or the Republican party had one iota of integrity left, they would expedite the document theft/espionage case so that voters can vote informed, but they won't, because they already know he's as guilty as sin and because many GOP Congressman participated in other Trump crimes.
Vote blue and crush this corrupt Project 2025 fascist take over of the nation, or we truly won't have a country anymore. And that won't be the product of some right winger's delusional projection, either.
Yes. We hear talk that “we” need to do something. Who is this we? There are many good Dems in congress and on courts, the Senate but as the wit from Oklahoma said many decades ago “I do not belong to an organized party, I’m a Democrat.”
Imho, if Ford had not pardoned Nixon, we would never have had the issues with tfg. He figured if Nixon got away with crimes in office, he could do it too.
Ford pardoned Nixon, no accountability.
Reagan committed treason in Iran/Contra, HW Bush pardoned all of the co-conspirators, no accountability.
Bush and Cheney lied us into a 20 year war, built a war crimes regime and crashed the economy, both walk free, no accountability.
Anyone wonder why we ended up with the Orange Menace?
All this egregious criminal behavior done by republicans over the past 50+ years, and some voters STILL haven’t learned. Why does this rampant criminal political party still exist?!
Because racism, greed, misogyny and hate can sustain a party funded by billionaires, with outsized political power because of rich white racists in 1789, SCOTUS racists in the 21st century and gerrymandering. The GOP should have gone the way of the Whigs long ago.
It’s all about the profits made from supplying war machinery. Classic tale.
That’s a simplified idea. There’s much more to this than that.
Perhaps, but who started any of them, and why? Eisenhower warned America to fear military-industrial complex in 1961. Following WEII and Korea, there have only been Presidential actions, not Congressional declarations of war, for some really dumb and continually changing reasons. Fear of Communism replaced fear of Fascism to create Korea and the Cold War. Then the USSR died along with a fear of Communism, then Kosovo, etc, followed by 9/11 and retribution against Bin Ladin, then a cooked up absurd story about WMD created a fear Iraq and Hussein and the Taliban, and so on. Bush II needed some political survival help and cooked up the WMD story from whole cloth to be seen as a wartime president reelection. The constant factor in all of this was the military-industrial complex need for continual war to fuel its machinery, and profits. What’s particularly complex about all of that?
Not just trump, but all of his high powered, big monied handlers who work behind the scenes to manipulate him and his minions.
Yes, it is, but in those days there were still some decent GOP members of Congress.
Yeah, 50 years ago.
This item just (did I really say that?) puts into perspective the immensity of today’s threat. I feel it is bigger than most realize.
It's very sad though there are SO many who are either unaware or have decided to turn a blind eye to all of this corruption. My maga friend was visiting the other day. We rarely talk politics bc we'd not have a friendship if we did. Scotus came up though and I was floored by how little she actually knew! Instead she could only respond with Fox talking points or admitted she just didn't know. I ended the conversation by telling her to please for once check other news besides fox! She won't and even if she did she'd still stick with her beliefs.
I’ve told people to google “Project 2025”. They don’t have to look very hard, it pops right up. They are stunned when they read it.
I couldn’t be friends with someone like that.
So how can she be a friend?
Actual facts:
Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary in 2016 by 2.9 mil.
Trump lost the 2020 popular vote by 7 mil and the general election to Biden.
There is not enough evidence of voter fraud to change those statistics.
Almost none, actually.
He's going to lose 2024, too.
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I’m not sure what your point is since WE DO NOT ELECT BASED UPON POPULAR VOTE, in presidential elections.
Down with the electoral college. Down with the Republic and up with Democracy.
Oh that IS good!
😉
I bought a pink one.
With the current corrupt Supreme Court, it will be far worse than when Watergate was happening. Look what they did with the Gore/Bush election and in just one day!
It’s all a giant pyramid scheme with the 10 or 15 top billionaires in the world controlling at the top. Next level down are the judges, federal and state and the corrupt money grabbing politicians( mostly far right republicans) all the way down through several more levels to the bottom racist, religious nuts, gun nuts, anti immigration nuts, low IQ people, angry old white people and the brainless Fox News, Newsmax and AM radio station cultists.
The farther down you go, the more gullible, ignorant, bigoted and apathetic you get.
Yep. I agree. Thank you for posting what seems very reasonable to me. I am trying to start communicating without using the word “truth.” As Socrates concluded he KNEW NOTHING. This includes the truth. However, this didn’t stop him from reason based upon experience.
When you read this Report, it is almost like you're having some incredibly bad nightmare about the state of our national political situation in this country. Trying to understand and make any sense of where our country has ended up over the past 9 to 10 years is almost incomprehensible. The Federal judicial system and SCOTUS has dragged it's feet over the past 3 years in terms of prosecuting what have been heinous crimes against our democracy. We should not have had to wait until the Nov. 5th presidential election to vote the fascist dictator Trump out of our lives forever. Some major changes in both the Federal and State judicial systems needs to be developed if we are going to save the country.
The electoral college was built into the Constitution, due to the compromise between the signers and founders, for the issue at hand. They didn't like "democracy", in its purest form, or majority/popular vote and the electoral college has proven to be the Constitution's biggest flaw. It needed to be banished long ago as the population grew.
The internet wasn't alive in Watergate's era. Watergate didn't involve a foreign adversary helping a candidate win by interference, that I'm aware of, and Reagan had yet to start to erode the middle class by cutting corporate taxes by over 50%. Nixon began it but Reagan nailed the coffin closed. The anger of not achieving what was then achievable wasn't near as prevalent to make an entire party, comprised of people/humans, turn into the MAGA nut camp from the base to Capitol Hill.
Nixon still left office with just over 25% approval rating and Ford made a grave error. Now, the third branch of the government is making the gravest of errors. Sending voters to their misinformed unfortunate demise as they cast a vote for Trump without knowing he's guilty or innocent (of course he's guilty) of the crimes indicted by a grand jury of normal Americans.
The base wants to own a woke lib while Trump's tax/tariff plan will destroy those very people first and hardest. Decency hides in the dark corners of the dark web and with AI. Meaning there is no decency. People had three options to turn to, to hear about Watergate, and now they have 3000X times that.
Projection, is the populist, and the populist is but the fool willing to do what was started 5 decades ago for conservative theocratic billionaires.
The Atlantic, yesterday, wrote an article defending journalism, especially pointing to The Times and the WSJ. They have every right to do so but they failed to make the biggest and most glaring dereliction an issue. The way the articles are structured and the headlines are written are journalistic malfeasance. Most people tend to read a headline and a paragraph or two. If the point of "Trump's donations trouncing Biden's" aren't re-worded and explained panic sets in. They fail at the simplest of simple and they DO NOT get a pass for that.
This election is about the grandiosity of a man who is haunted by his past, his father, and now the system he feels treated him unfairly. Believe me, after 5+ decades, Trump knows he's no victim and knows his money is what the two tiered justice system is. He's been learning this for a long time.
It is nice to say "I'll get back to you on that topic or this topic" after 8 years but if no one understands that he doesn't need policy statements when he is the policy that's a problem. Fear, if nothing more, should drive everyone to the polls in November for Biden. Old, but capable of far more than I could imagine and he's 40 years my senior. Harris can lead because she can listen and she is smart and capable. Trump and whatever hack he chooses are not.
Project 2025 and its 902 pages is a must read for anyone not understanding the end goal. Forget polls. Forget deep fakes. Give people websites, screenshots and reminders of what happened in his first term for the economy now, his justices, his failure to protect 1.25M dead Americans, took troops off the border of Syria, lied about servicemen and women coming home who he wouldn't allow the Purple Heart because he wanted his lie, no one got hurt, to be believed, and the money and equity stocks he and Mnuchin took when bailing out the travel industry. Oh, so much more.
Biden needs to have Fireside Chats, on social media, every week. No moderators, no audience. Just Biden talking about facts, acknowledging people's concerns, and debunking the conspiracies. HEAD ON STYLE. It'd work. He'd be the first POTUS to do something this powerful on the internet. Obama had the first Facebook page but he didn't need to get across to the people like Biden does and curiosity, if nothing else, will bring traffic. Biden isn't bombastic but he's got the ammunition. We can't lose this moment.
Peace!
If I remember correctly, and that may be questionable, the Watergate prosecution was really a response to Nixon's bad handling of Vietnam coupled with the way Nixon's people treated the Democrats in the 1972 election. I think Nixon could have walked away from Watergate had he not been so underhanded and spiteful in that election.
Anyway, by the time all was said and done in 1974, the spite Democrats had for Nixon had diminished. I, for one, no longed cared what was done to Nixon after he resigned and was removed from office. He took his medicine and swallowed it like a man while heading off to Florida to spend his final years taking the country's hate with him. No need to put him in the pen.
It's a totally different story concerning the latest Repub immoral, unethical fascist. If, and hopefully, when he's found guilty for his myriad of crimes, Trump must be ordered to serve as much time as he's earned. We need to punish him, and he needs to serve as a symbol for the future for what will happen to the next Repub who tries to win by "whatever means is necessary." Trump and his acolytes must be locked up for a long time in a harsh penitentiary so that, hopefully, no one in the future will attempt to play outside the box ever again lest they be caught and stashed away out of sight and behind bars. Trying to steal an election must be treated with the seriousness that it deserves. Play by the rules or else- goodbye you dirty rotten scoundrels.
If memory serves me correctly, Nixon & company were driven to break in by Nixon's well known paranoia. He beat McGovern badly.
Nixon crucified McGovern hideously which makes Watergate and all the other dirty tricks his team pulled all the more ridiculous. Many right wing dirty tricksters got their start working for Trickie Dick. I give you Roger Stone who cut his teeth on Nixon. Nixon was a paranoid fool which, ultimately, was his downfall.
I like your comparison here, Dean, to take this even further... We've got a Supreme Court and right wing media that far surpasses anything seen in the Nixon administration ! Donald's lawlessness goes beyond anything I've ever seen in my lifetime,or in history?! We really are in Uncharted territory here. This is for anyone who wants to keep our Democracy, Vote Blue down the ballot and encourage everyone to do the same.(be sure to check your voter registration!!!) again, Dean, thanks for sharing this most important topic! Brilliant 👍💯
Thank you for telling me about Watergate, I didn't know anything about it, I've only been interested in US politics since trump was a candidate in 2015/16 to date.
Trump, the narcissist that he is, surely Must go to prison or there'll be a public outcry. Whether now or after he loses the election he Has to go, I just hope Judge Merchan gives the only justice trump deserves.
Boris Epshteyn
Every time I listened to him on TV I could smell sulphur and see dark swirling clouds of evil. OK, only in my imagination. He was one of the darkest among all the darkness Trump surrounded himself with.
Nevertheless, it seemed like following some natural law in humanity like attracts like and everyone around Trump seemed either dark, or unprincipled in ambition all the way to the naïveté of simple true believers. Trump is an evil Oz behind a curtain attracting the evil, the duplicitous, the greedy and the silly true believers.
With our corrupted legal system I’m not positive we can survive this. BUT WE MUST KEEP TRYING.
Is Boris Epshteyn worse that Stephen Miller? I don't know a whole lot about him except seeing him on MSNBC during the 2016 election. What I remember is that he wouldn't answer questions and would never shut up, always talking over the host.
I thought about Miller as I was writing my comment. Boris comes across to me as a very dark mobster. Miller comes across to me as a bright but suck ideologue who was picked on as a children and he is getting his revenge. They are both evil but Miller is weaker, much like Trump.
Very interesting. You clearly know more about Boris than I do. I feel fortunate that I have not had to experience him lately. Thank you for supporting my gut reaction to Boris.
Damn I hate autocorrect. Hopefully the essence of what I do. Susan, your note just flashed on my iPad but only for a moment so I’ll have to read it when done with this comment.
I do not know Boris. However, I seem to have very good antennae about people. Boris is a thug.
Dean you are my one of my favorite guests on MSNBC. You always know what you're talking about and you'll always have the right answer. And you always have a smile and a laugh and watching you just makes people feel good keep on telling the truth
Nixon and his enablers were corrupt. Trump and his enablers are evil.
Oh Nixon was pure evil- he kept the Vietnam War going because he felt like it
Dean, there is one point I have different information on, from what you said: my understanding is that Roger Stone had his sentence commuted, that he was not pardoned. I agree that trump's crimes are far worse than Nixon's.
"There's one little thing that we think you should know,
Whatever we say isn't quite what we mean,
We're Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean."
This was a verse from a song playing on the radio, my senior year at the U of Mn. Many of us watched most of the Watergate proceedings, before Congress, of the Special Council's case for impeachment in the U's student union.
The Nixon pardon was a gross miscarriage of justice that has haunted the nation to this Despite GOP attempts at rewriting history.
It has resulted in steadily escalating corruption & a sense of entitlement within the GOP, just as many of us suspected would be the case, at the time.
Post Watergate corruption began with the GOP call to arms, outlined by the Powell Memo, a libertarian manifesto written by SC Justice-in-waiting, Lewis Powell. From there it progressed to the Reagan anti-union and the Geckonian "greed is good" movement.(A narcissistic movement if ever there was one.) From Reagan the GOP upped the ante with the Lee Atwater spawned, Willy Horton type dirty tricks and Newt Gingrich's training in how to direct wartime propaganda at political rivals, training GOP followers to hate the opposition. Tagging the opposition with hyperbolic names like socialist, communist & Godless. Attempting to turn liberal into a dirty word.
It was all part of a "vast right wing conspiracy" financed by GOP wealthy donors. With heavy emphasis on the word conspiracy. (Many of the GOPs subversive tricks were learned thru observation of USSR & Russian subversive activity.)
Mitch McConnell began his efforts to capture the judicial branch in 1990. By 2000 SCOTUS was stacked far enough to the right that they could illegally intervene in Bush v Gore, to inappropriately crown G.W. Bush. This resulted in a voter backlash that helped elect Obama. Most should still remember how McConnell filibustered Obama's judicial nominees to save appointments for the next Republican president.
Finally, we get to the hands down, most corrupt president in US history, number 45. A jury found that he defrauded voters by conspiring to capture & kill news about his infidelity and turned it into one of 34 felonies by cooking the books of his business to cover it up.
He has been convicted of rape and defrauding a charity. He has been charged with fraud, witness tampering, obstruction, election interference and racketeering, just to name a few of his many crimes.
Luck of the draw provided him with a Trump appointed, corrupt judge that could drag her feet in adjudicating his document theft/espionage case. The implications for US damage from this crime require a high level of urgency.
If Judge Cannon or the Republican party had one iota of integrity left, they would expedite the document theft/espionage case so that voters can vote informed, but they won't, because they already know he's as guilty as sin and because many GOP Congressman participated in other Trump crimes.
Vote blue and crush this corrupt Project 2025 fascist take over of the nation, or we truly won't have a country anymore. And that won't be the product of some right winger's delusional projection, either.
Those we elected are not helping and are too quiet...Garland is so wrong and botched the job...we can vote if they don't steal it...
Yes. We hear talk that “we” need to do something. Who is this we? There are many good Dems in congress and on courts, the Senate but as the wit from Oklahoma said many decades ago “I do not belong to an organized party, I’m a Democrat.”