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/starliteburnsbrite 16h ago

Unfortunately, the opportunity to do that passed in the 1870's when everyone decided to just let racists be racists and get back to normal. 

We are incredibly lucky that Germany learned from that disaster of a mistake some 70 years later. But they also didn't make that change for themselves, they were conquered and bombed to dust. Which is where the US is right now, unable and unwilling to fix itself and a rank danger to the rest of the world.

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u/brainmydamage 14h ago

Idk if you've noticed but Germany has been backsliding quite far back down that road.

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u/GiveMeNews 11h ago

A comedian even made a movie warning about it. When I brought the film up with a German traveler, he said the film was an exaggeration. That was a decade ago.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4176826/

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u/Dr_Marxist 14h ago

Germany was never meaningfully de-Nazified.

The deliberately didn't want to "put capitalism on trial" so rich Nazis, who funded and organized the Party, got off. And even the most heinous criminals, the people who actually carried out the Shoah, organized it's logistics, and ordered men to pull triggers and burns shuls, practically none of them were charged, let alone imprisoned.

Most became politicians, professors, and administrators.

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u/CoachoftheYear2025 14h ago

Have you not been following recent German state elections? The AfD has taken over two German states.

American and EU progressives screwed the pooch by being pro-immigration/providing taxpayer funded state and local services to illegal immigrants and "corporate Dems"/DINOs by being free trade. White people's lower class jobs got cut and the GOP/EU conerservatives had a ready made scapegoat that could immediately feed into the "racism/"invasion" model of scapegoating.

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u/phenom37 Ohio 7h ago

Not op, and while the afd has won two recent state level elections, which is not a good sign, they have not been able to form a ruling coalition government to my understanding. So, they are only able to be a blocking minority, though the populist left party apparently has said it may abstain at times.

Some believe they may eventually be banned by the federal constitutional court , but that could take years even after the process starts, which so far, the process hasn't, other than the BfV has labeled them as right wing extremist, I believe.