Posted on 10/18/2019 8:01:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Watergate is the ur-text for how Americans imagine the defeat of a sitting president, but it shouldn’t be how to think about the impeachment of Donald Trump.
Watergate was a formative political experience for many of the older Democrats who run the House of Representatives these days. And the semi-fictionalized version of the scandal portrayed on film in All the President’s Men is an emotional and intellectual touchstone for many journalists. To this day, it’s conventional to denote the existence of a political scandal by appending “-gate” to a noun, as if “Watergate” had to with water rather than originating with a burglary at the Watergate Hotel.
1973 was a long time ago. The party system, the judiciary, and the media environment have evolved so much that there are no inferences to be applied to the present day — period.
American elites rarely seem to do this, but they should consider the lesson that toppled Mariano Rajoy’s corrupt right-wing government in Spain in 2018, Park Geun-hye’s corrupt right-wing government in South Korea in 2017, and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson’s corrupt right-wing government in Iceland in 2016: Large-scale public protests work.
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Civil War II is coming.
Back in the closet, freak before you get stuffed
in it (the writer not the OP)
See my tag line.
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“there are no inferences to be applied to the present day — period. “
Matt doesn’t realize that this applies to the right as well. The right has seen behind the curtain and no longer has the same respect for government wizards and their rules that it did in days gone by. The right will not sit back and let angry leftists get away with what they used to be able to do. Mass mobilization can and will happen on the right if the Left decides to go there.
Just send it libtards.
I’ve been preparing, and I’ve got no daily limits on my tard stamp.
We’ve been waiting for you for a long time.....
Try it, progs, try it.
And it will be bloody as hell.
And it will be bloody as hell.
Bump
Their frustration level with the futility of the dems inability to depose President Trump with their coup is beginning to drive them more and more crazy.
The dems, the MSM and the deep state have failed miserably thanks to the uncanny instincts of President Trump.
They are being driven to desperation. And, desperation wrt to lunatics is a dangerous thing.
It wouldn’t be a very long war. It’s only the media that makes the “resistance” seem more than a bunch of old hippies and their young acolytes yelling loud and making trouble. If any “war” came along, these people would scurry quick to their various domiciles, from basements to penthouses.
Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.
So Vox is calling for the unlawful overthrow of a duly elected President?
Are no consequences for that sort of thing?
I got news for you, Vox. You aren’t “getting rid” of Trump. You may as well accept it.
Resisting a coup is hard. Sufficient to let the Republicans Party handle it.
As soon as they go too far!!!
Another site sez “spicy time is coming”. Prepare accordingly.
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