• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    22 hours ago

    After Nixon resigned, even his worst enemies were okay with letting him get away with it. Almost no one was calling for Ford to be impeached or demanding Nixon be jailed.

    For the Left, the lesson of Watergate was that the system worked. For the Right the lesson was that they had to change the system so none of them ever had to be punished for anything, ever.

    A lot of Reagan’s ‘deregulation’ was aimed at dismantling the press and getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine.