“When Richard Nixon abused power, Republican senators stood up to him and said, ‘Mr. President, you’ve gone too far.’”
And the Republicans were slaughtered in the next election in 1974. The electorate punished them for dealing honestly with a bad president.
Fast forward to 1998. The Democrats protect to their death the far-worse perjuring Clinton, of whom even Sen. Moynihan said early on, if he had sex with Ms. Lewinsky, he’d have to resign. The Dems rallied round this evil man, down to the last Dem, even Sen. Moynihan refusing to break ranks in the end.
And what happened? The electorate rewarded the scum with electoral victory in 1998.
What’s the lesson? Stand by your prez, no matter how evil he is, or the electorate will punish you.
If only Nixon would have had a Crystal Ball. If only he could have seen how to get away with Watergate....
At the the onset of the scandal, Tricky Dick should have created a completely new scandal. And as outrage began to escalate over that new and different scandal, he should have moved to develop yet another mind boggling “you gotta be sh**ing me” scandal.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat. On a weekly basis. Till the public is so overloaded with lies, crimes, scandals, and other acts of one who hates America, that NOTHING could be done to stop it.
Imagine if - in 1970 - Nixon would have had Communist operatives working freely in the White House. Imagine even if Nixon himself WAS a Communist and weekly quoted Commie dogma.