'If there are any responsible people in Trump's circle he still listens to, they should tell him to stop acting as though tanks are circling the White House.' ed_kilgore writes
These two men were subject to impeachment proceedings after winning reelection comfortably. Photo: Dirck Halstead/Liaison via Getty Images; William Philpott/AFP/Getty Images When you get to be my age, you have an awful lot of déjà vu experiences that might elude younger folk. So when suddenly the president of the United States started labeling impeachment proceedings as insurrectionary, I felt a blast of hot air from the past.
This sounded familiar because it was a popular conservative revisionist history contention with regard to Richard Nixon’s forced resignation 45 years ago. Here’s Pat Buchanan on the 25th anniversary of the Watergate break-in: In reality, the GOP of the time wasn’t that different from the GOP of 2019, and things could easily have gone the other way. Moreover, since then, much of the Republican Party has believed that Nixon was the victim of a monstrous injustice that must never be repeated …A huge swath of GOP elites thought that they should have. Rather than seeing Nixon as a sinner, they thought he been sinned against.
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