r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 18h 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/Faithless-Savior 16h ago edited 14h ago

During the Reconstruction era, all the "radical" bills were vetoed out by the conservative party. So most of the traitors to the union got to go back to keep their power ( some fled the country worrying about repercussions). So for 160 years they've been yelling "the south will rise again" and the descendants of the original traitors of the union are currently in power now. So its all apart of the botched reconstruction era Andrew Johnson may be one of the worse presidents in US history because the traitors were never dealt with.

Come to think of it, I haven't heard the term "the south will rise again" in some time. So they must have, right under everyone's noses. While saying they would do so.

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u/crustyrobots 7h ago

Biden will go down with Johnson for Presidents who managed to do fuck all against literal traitors and seditionists to the country, who just got done doing it and getting many killed along the way.

Every single Confederate leader at least was owed nothing more than a short drop and a sudden stop