In the second part of their interview, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein compare how Republican congressmen like Barry Goldwater stood up to Nixon to the way the current crop of GOP lawmakers continued to back T**** even after the horrors of the Jan. 6th insurrection. #Colbert #AllThePresidentsMen #Watergate
This is Nazism Being Repeated
ReplyMaybe the problem is people in the Republican / Democratic parties in congress now, is that they’re old enough to remember the Nixon administration as it happened. People in their 70’s aren’t leaving a future for us, they’re leaving a 40 year mess for us to clean up.
ReplyI think it’s about time America just divided anyways. Half of America wants an unelected tyrant
ReplyAt this point, it would be political suicide for any Republican (anyone really believe Liz will be in Congress next year?) to accuse Trump of what Merrick Garland has to accuse him of. Now, it should be said that if you commit political suicide to save the democracy, you’re not going to be a complete loser. You’re going to get written up in a book called _Profiles in Courage 2_ and you’re going to be remembered in history, just like Barry Goldwater. However, most politicians do not have such courage. Let’s stipulate that, or else the original _Profiles in Courage_ would have had hundreds of chapters.
The really disgusting mistakes came in 2015 and 2016. It’s not like it wasn’t clear, throughout Trump’s adult life, and especially starting in 2011 what kind of man he was and that his selfishness, narcissism, ignorance, racism, mendacity and opportunism made him singularly unfit to be president. So, instead of narrowing the field before the primaries ever began, the party allowed 17 candidates to run, and maintained its winner take all rule, thus splitting the anti-Trump vote 16 ways. This allowed Trump to win 62% of the delegates with 45% of the vote, just 45%, even including the landslide victories he scored after clinching the nomination. Contrast this with Bernie, who got 43% of the vote and 39% of the delegates in 2016. That was the first mistake that the Republican establishment made. If it had been Trump, Cruz and Kasich from the Iowa caucuses on, iinstead of just at the end, would Trump have won?
Once that opportunity was lost, the second mistake was not ganging up on him during the general election, or at least refusing to endorse him, despite the fact that he told the nation during the campaign exactly what he was going to do if he became president: destroy the norms that had been followed by all the presidents who preceded him, Democratic or Republican, whom he parodied as boring and robotic. If 40 GOP senators had said they weren’t going to vote for him in November, he would have lost the 2016 election regardless of what Putin did. Yes, that would have elected Hillary. The Republican establishment knew how to deal with Hillary. They would have done to her just what they did to Obama and Biden. Instead they deluded themselves into thinking, and encouraging other Americans to think, that once he became president, Trump would change and they would have him under their control. They had already deluded themselves into thinking that they could keep control of Tea Party members and failed. Why they thought someone like Trump was controllable, I have no idea. Second opportunity lost.
Finally, in January, 2017, McConnell, Ryan and other influential establishment Republicans should have invited Trump for lunch and told him that he would get nothing but a tax cut done if he didn’t act like a Republican president. They would thwart him in every way and look out for their own rear ends, not his. His allowing members of his campaign to collude with the Russian government, whether or not he himself did, would have led to Republicans voting to impeach too.
They did none of these things and will never do any of these things: Mitch McConnell recently told Jonathan Swan that he thinks it would be odd if he didn’t support Trump if he becomes the nominee in 2024. If I had been Swan, I would have asked, “What if Hitler were around and became the nominee? He was an awfully charismatic personality, as we know.” That is today’s Republican Party. Trump is, at heart, a weak person. Had he been ganged up upon by his own party officials at any of these junctures he would have collapsed, maybe had a nervous breakdown, live and in color. But no, no profiles in courage here.
ReplyWe’re telling the world who we really are by how we’re handling 1/6 Trump launch a heavy duty Campaign about a rigged election, all part of His plan to Overthrow the will of the people. He used His power to temper with mail in ballots, Threatened officials, used to court System…
ReplyInteresting. My first question to Woodward would not be why he covered up his years in Naval intelligence when he developed his relationship with Haig. Or why he covered up his sources and invented “Deep Throat.” No, I would ask him about his relationship with Bob Bennett and how early on he was fed stories about the Watergate break in with the agreement to leave the CIA out of the narrative.
ReplyKudos to Colbert for getting BOTH Woodward and Bernstein. It seems that generally Woodward shows up on MSNBC and Bernstein on CNN. Rarely do we see them together. I guess CBS is neutral ground of sorts. They still work well together, each building on what the other has said.
ReplyI hope some college has the sense to hire these men as lecturers. History lecturers. Because they have it all in their heads.
ReplyA six-year-old having a tantrum is an accurate assessment, except he is much more dangerous and difficult to subdue. They are afraid of him because they have engaged in unlawful acts with him and now they must side with him to try to cover up their mess. And don’t forget he is not above blackmail or murder. They know that that is why Pence didn’t get into that car.
ReplyVery sad times for American Democracy! The worst part is,there were powerful People in government assisting Trump in His Criminal behavior. They’re planning in giving Him only probation, like Derick Chauvin, who soffocated George Floyd to death.
ReplyRepublicans plan to cut social security and Medicare, and they already wants to roll back abortion, tax the poor every body with” skin in the game ” a coup with Republicans in on the coup attempt, flirting with fascism Republicans are radical
ReplyGOP politicians know their voter base is shrinking. What else should they do? They are literally obsoleting as we watch. Just because some yahoos on social media use all caps does not mean their opinion carries enough weight any more.
ReplyAnd yet people the same age as these two gentlemen voted foe this incompetent delusional RASIST pos of a human being wake up seniors you pucking up.the country
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