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For the record, I agree with Vice President Vance: If the right-wing media empire that exists today had been in place in the seventies, President Nixon would have survived Watergate. What the president and his cronies are now so flagrantly doing to corrupt our democratic institutions is far worse than what Nixon did, and it wasn\u2019t pattycakes back then.<\/p>\n

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How can Vance chuckle over how easy it is to get away with what would have been impeachable two generations ago? What is the administration he\u2019s serving doing that dwarfs what Nixon did? Lies, cover-ups, and hush-money deals were hallmarks of the seventies\u2019 corrupt power players. Judging by Vance\u2019s smugness, he knows a lot more than he\u2019s telling us.<\/p>\n

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I wasn\u2019t yet in Washington, but you didn\u2019t need to live here to be shocked at Nixon\u2019s coarseness, his bigotry, how he weaponized the CIA and turned the IRS on his political enemies. Aside from all that, though, he wasn\u2019t crazy\u2014and he did some big, bold, and lasting things, including creating the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and PBS (Public Broadcasting System), and signing Title 1X that broke down barriers for women in sports. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And though he yearned to be a president with the Trumpian heft to believe, if not assert, that if he said something, it was true, Nixon did feel a sense of shame over being driven from office. He spent the rest of his life trying to recast his legacy and establish himself as someone whose foreign policy chops were worth paying attention to. <\/p>\n

So, what was Vance thinking? Speaking at the Nixon Library, he likened himself to the former disgraced president (who too was a vice president\u2026) as victims of a \u201cdeep state\u201d hellbent on destroying any administration that takes the country in a different direction. Of course, it\u2019s comical to cast Nixon as a victim of the established order since he epitomized it\u2014a former senator and former vice president in the Eisenhower administration. <\/p>\n

\u201cVance is talking to the American people, most of whom hadn\u2019t been born (during) Watergate,\u201d says Bill Galston, a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at Brookings. \u201cHe\u2019s painting on a nearly blank canvas.\u201d If people don\u2019t experience history for themselves, they have to be taught, and that\u2019s what Vance is doing\u2014rather, he\u2019s rewriting history for people who only know Watergate as a footnote.<\/p>\n

But Watergate was the biggest corruption scandal centered at the White House that the country had ever seen; Vance is elevating Trump (and himself too) when he argues Nixon was unjustly singled out. Never mind that 80 people went to jail for Watergate-related crimes, and it was Republican leaders, including the GOP\u2019s former standard-bearer, Barry Goldwater, who went to Nixon in the White House and told him the jig was up. They were ready to impeach.<\/p>\n

The break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel had received little media attention until two young reporters at The Washington Post sniffed out a CIA connection and began to tell the improbable story of a cover-up that reached the Oval Office. Nixon\u2019s administration threatened to pull the licenses of Post radio and television stations; Attorney General John Mitchell said Post publisher \u201cKatie Graham\u2019s gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that\u2019s published,\u201d later prompting her to have a pin of such a scene fashioned, which she wore proudly.<\/p>\n

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For a time, the Post stood alone. The story was so unimaginable, and if Nixon had destroyed the tapes, as some counseled him to do, he might have beaten the rap. (The scandal took time to penetrate the country. When Nixon ran for re-election in 1972, he won in a landslide.) But the paper didn\u2019t buckle even as the White House lowered the boom, denying reporters access and denouncing Post stories. Woodward and Bernstein found their \u201cDeep Throat,\u201d Mark Felt, an FBI official who\u2019d been passed over for the top job and was ready to talk. <\/p>\n

Indeed, his resignation wouldn\u2019t happen today because in Vance\u2019s recasting, that the \u201cdeep state\u201d that\u2019s out to get Trump is the same force that brought down Nixon\u2014with no more justification. And thsi this time they\u2019re not getting their way, Vance promises. <\/p>\n

As we mark the country\u2019s 250th birthday, a milestone that the Founding Fathers would no doubt find remarkable, we have the context of history to rebut what Vance is trying to create as a new authoritarian moment. The Supreme Court is handing down decisions that Nixon could only dream of\u2014immunity from criminal acts if you\u2019re president!\u2014and if there\u2019s a red line that Trump won\u2019t cross, we haven\u2019t seen it yet. <\/p>\n

Vance should go back and read Nixon\u2019s tearful farewell statement on August 9, 1974, less than two years after his landslide win: \u201cAlways remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don\u2019t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.\u201d <\/p>\n

It was a moment of clarity for a man who spent his life nursing grievances, and an admonition that Vance might consider before he wades too much deeper into the swamp at the front of an administration that dismisses Watergate-level crimes as nothing more than a 12-hour news cycle. <\/p>\n

Vance thinks he can get away with such a glib and dangerous comparison because, well, when everything is outrageous, nothing is. Normalizing everything Trump does, touting the chaos and the cruelty as part of governing a vast remarkable nation rather than tallying the cost to human beings.<\/p>\n

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The Washington Post saved us from Nixon. Today\u2019s media is fast and furious, but too often signifies nothing. The only thing that can save us from Trump and his excesses are the voters. <\/p>\n

Read more Why Every Epic Fail at Trump\u2019s \u2018Great\u2019 State Fair is a Metaphor<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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