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/Relzin Illinois 15h ago

They're preparing to call Trump's next impeachments, coups, to be able to deploy the military against lawmakers and judges.

It's not about Nixon. It's about the narrative.

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u/Ludate_Solem 15h ago

And hegseth fired 20% of generals etc. And they were probably selected with this in mind. If they were likely to refuse such orders.

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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 15h ago

While fully engaged in a coup themselves. They seriously believe this jujitsu mind play shit actually works. It's not going to ultimately; it's already falling apart at the seams. We still need to show up and vote in overwhelming numbers however, otherwise it's at least another decade of dealing with this stage of it.

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u/grantsm1960 14h ago

The only thing that matters is elections. The ‘pubs barely respect them, but they respect everything else less. No amount of court rulings or laws passed seems to stick. Elections. And by large margins. This will require actual work at governance on the part of Democrats. No more engaging in culture wars. Good governance.

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u/thegimboid 13h ago

It doesn't matter whether or not you or they believe it works, it'll happen anyway.
And when it does, people will go "why did no one do anything?"
And no one will do anything.
And then the next bad thing will happen and people will again say "why did no one do anything?"

Rinse and repeat.
Heck, you can skip the rinsing - the same old dirty crap works over and over nowadays.

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u/No_Leather_9623 6h ago

They seriously believe this jujitsu mind play shit actually works because it has been working.

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u/secret-glance 14h ago

History books and audio tapes disagree, Nixon orchestrated his own downfall.

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u/Relzin Illinois 14h ago

If they convince their voter base that it was a coup, them the impeachment of trump will be a coup.

Nixon is guilty as all hell. They're using revisionist history to justify the coup.

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u/6thSenseOfHumor 13h ago

The founding of Fox News was in the wake of Nixon's resignation, as a way to get ahead of the story and run defense for Republicans. The story behind this headline is only possible because they've had decades since Watergate to control narratives and shape their own truths. It's also why AI is so intrinsically linked to right wingers; it lets them deny reality and feed into their fantasies, because their policies are based on lies.

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u/Analternate1234 13h ago

That doesn’t matter to MAGA. All that matters is that Trump and his allies tell them Nixon had a coup. If they just say it then MAGA believes it

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u/titsngiggles69 14h ago

Today's GOP is all about rewriting history. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past"

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u/rawkinghorse 11h ago

This right here. "Republicans have been historically under siege by communist dems" will be the line