Quote of the day
The question I get most often when speaking about Watergate is a version of “what would happen if Watergate happened today with Fox News?” And my answer is always very simple: Nixon would have survived. Not because he didn’t deserve to be forced from office, or because there was a Deep State campaign against him, but because today (a) the conservative noise machine would have defended Nixon and undermined the investigation and (b) because there’s no longer any Republicans left who act for the country over the party.
~Garrett M. Graff
~Garrett M. Graff
Just months short of the nation’s 250th birthday, Donald Trump is close to batting a thousand at speed-running the very abuses of power that led to the Founders to write the Declaration of Independence in the first place. Does any of this sound familiar:
– He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
– For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments
– He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
– He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
– He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
– He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
– For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world
– For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent
– For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury
– For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
And so on.
Garrett Graff
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