re: #48 BeachDem

Déjà vu (h/t to daily kos)

“The slow-rising central horror of “Watergate” is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
~Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 (1973)

We learn. We forget. We remembered the lessons of the Great Depression for almost 70 years.

The problem now is that there were two different lessons from Watergate. Both lessons were about how fragile the institutions of democracy actually are. At the same time that most of us learned how important it is to shore them up, others learned how much easier things would be if you tear them down.

Geraldo Rivera to Sean Hannity: “It’s too bad for Nixon, because nobody like you existed then. I say that because I believe that our prime responsibility now is to unshackle [Trump]” https://t.co/04QJxgC7mM

— Media Matters (@mmfa) February 2, 2018