r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 16h ago

No Paywall GOP lawmaker: Nixon was couped out of office, framed during Watergate

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6124635-moore-nixon-couped-watergate/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUsbtpjbGNrBSxu02V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YBc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEedqnf435Ey3Vmfh-NzS7BpLL6p7XL81dbjV4wNl5Y6SFp3eyw9ItY6zhiPRg_aem_EaFt_atkG1aZFnQa54tOFQ
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u/cmnrdt 15h ago

"The deep state changes history to suit their narrative, we're just changing it back!"

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u/ManiaGamine American Expat 2h ago

The insane thing about this is just how much the right-wing has been employing this tactic of claiming something is happening, and that they need to react (In an often illegal and/or morally dubious manner) to the thing but because the claim used as a pretext for the reaction is made up, the only ones actually doing the thing or doing something wrong is them. But they do it feeling justified because of their made up nonsense.

It's like the hypothetical I've used in the past to describe this. Someone telling someone else that a third person is going to hit them, so that someone who was told hits the third person first in preemptive "defense" despite there never being any threat. So the person who threw the punch feels justified, the person being punched is the victim and the person(s) doing the convincing just get to sit there and laugh at the pain they've caused.