There's a lot of angst out on the internet today about saving Republicans from themselves, because once again, we know that their choice of leadership has failed.
But treason and failed leadership isn't a bug -- it's a feature with Republican presidents.
How many voters actually know that Richard Nixon fired special prosecutors appointed to investigate his dirty election tricks, among them breaking into Democratic National Headquarters to find blackmailable information on people running for public office, especially the presidency?
How many voters know that Richard Nixon sent his "people" to Vietnam to delay the end of the Vietnam War so that Humphrey would lose the 1968 election? Nixon wasn't even a Senator; he was an ex-Vice President. This was treason against the United States to win an election.
How many voters remember Iran-Contra? The Reagan administration sold arms to Iran (behind Congress's back) and transferred the money from those sales to the Contras in Nicaragua (directly contradicting the will of Congress).
How many voters know that the Reagan people negotiated with Iran behind the sitting president's back to delay the release of AMERICAN HOSTAGES until he could win the 1980 election? This was treason against the United States to win an election.
How many voters know or remember that the Bush supporters in New York forged signatures to get Dubya on the primary ballot?
Do voters remember that Dubya's campaign pushed the smear that John McCain had an illegitimate Black child, when he had actually adopted a baby from Bangladesh?
Do voters remember where the term Swiftboating comes from?
Russia interfered in the 2016 election to elect Donald Trump. You know how I know that? Because Putin said so, out loud, in Helsinki in 2018.
What's changed with Trump is not Republicans who, like nauseous dogs, will return to their vomit every four years with no sense of what just happened or what happened fifty years ago.
What's changed is that we Democrats no longer follow the fantasy of fairness. As my husband said on The Bob Cesca Show:
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