Democracy was nice while we had it
PERSIST, THE POET SAYS: “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (Shari Golob photo)
This year’s elections could be the end of democracy in America. …
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COMMENTARY
Posts Tagged with: Donald Trump
WILL THERE BE PUNISHMENT FOR A LYING EX-PRESIDENT?
NEAR THE END. Trump at Gastonia, NC, Oct. 21, 2020. (Gaston Gazette photo)
Herblock, the late Washington Post political cartoonist and nemesis of Richard Nixon, wrote in a 1974 book, …
Read More →THE PRESS SINCE WATERGATE: GETTING BETTER AND WORSE AT THE SAME TIME
One long-lasting Watergate myth is that the coverage of the Watergate scandal was a great success for the news media in America, in that, as many have said facetiously, the press dethroned a president. There …
Read More →‘If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law’
Republican presidents and other leaders after Nixon quit on democracy, sometimes criminally, straight on through to the Donald Trump era. This segment of Watergate at 50 is the first of several describing how we got …
Read More →Nixon’s legacy: After him, Republicans en masse quit on democracy
Fifty years after the break-in some Watergate ideas emerge.
Among the main ones, in my view, are that the failure to prosecute Nixon and the Ford pardon of him did great damage to democracy …
Read More →Watergate questions in the time of Trump
Recently a group sent me a dozen Watergate questions. Some are strictly about the old days, some about how Watergate is relevant today.
Is it possible we’ll ever know what exactly was on the deleted part …
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