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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeja vu all over again...1974 Nixon political cartoon proves that history DOES repeat itself.
@BeschlossDC
In this 1974 Herblock cartoon, Nixon says, "Listen, are you going to be loyal to me or to that (expletive deleted) Constitution?"
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Hekate
(90,755 posts)unblock
(52,277 posts)today's republican party is all-in for donald fraud.
some will say that republicans were all-in for nixon until it all fell apart, but that's rather overstating it. yes, he had quite a lot of support within his party in washington until just weeks before he resigned, but there was always a sense that there were a number of republicans who would stand up and do the right thing.
today the only republicans who even bother to pretend they'll ever do the right thing are the ones who have already announced retirement.
barbtries
(28,808 posts)that today, the GOP's answer is not the same.
sandensea
(21,644 posts)I'm the law, and I give the orders.
George II
(67,782 posts)lastlib
(23,259 posts)(I guess it was after he wiped his filthy arse with it....)
BigmanPigman
(51,615 posts)and realized that he NEVER felt he committed any crimes and NEVER had to pay the price for that. Resigning doesn't count in my book. When David Frost interviewed him a few years after he resigned Nixon did say that a president can't be guilty of committing a crime because he is the POTUS. David Frost wasn't expecting that response, you could tell from the look on his face.
I want tRump to pay the price for his crimes and I want his family to as well. I want the most cruel punishment possible because he is the most sadistic POTUS we have ever had. What is the punishment for TREASON? Yes, I know what the punishment is and that is what I want him to receive.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)czarjak
(11,287 posts)For some oddly odious reason.
Kablooie
(18,637 posts)I don't think Dems have ever been in that predicament.