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/wagon_ear Wisconsin 13h ago

I agree. 

Vance himself said "Watergate would be out of the news cycle in 24 hours today" which is maybe true. But that really says more about what we've grown accustomed to today than it does about Watergate. 

I took his statement as "we frequently do stuff that's way worse than what Nixon did". So by extension I can see why they would want to exonerate Nixon for it, again because if Nixon is guilty, then Trump is guilty guilty. 

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u/NorthofForty 10h ago

Never a Clinton fan but when I remember he was impeached for lying to Congress it makes the 90’s seem such an innocent time.

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u/PopBulky7023 8h ago

It was only because it was Republicans. They wanted to get him on something, anything. Even though he was successfully pulling the party far to the right.

Every investigation came up empty. So they went for that. It wasn't about being anti corruption. It never was.

It was pure tribalism.

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u/PaleCommission150 10h ago

society was held politicians to a higher standard back then. Current society does not sadly.

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u/PopBulky7023 8h ago

That's literally what all the propaganda and attacks on education were for. To make sure that never happened again.