In any case he's going with "we're more like Nixon than Reagan".
Alrighty then.
I think they'll be a LOT more like Nixon after November.
VP Vance, Nixon Library
It's not a story, it's a statement of an opinion: "Watergate is a story ...".
Like the remark about whites, the Deep State remark is just another one-off Vance burbles more than he argues.
But let's talk substance instead.
The actual luminaries of the Deep State in 1974 turned out to be Richard Hofstadter's 1964 practitioner of the paranoid style himself, the father of the conservative movement, Senator Barry Goldwater, and a moderate Republican Senator, Howard Baker from Tennessee, Nixon's would-be protector.
Goldwater was the one who had to break it to Nixon on August 7, 1974 that once impeached by the House there were not 34 votes to acquit in the U.S. Senate, not even half that, and maybe not even his vote. He was 1974's John Thune of 2026, who doesn't have the votes for Trump's election interference bill.
Baker's June 1973 question, "What did the president know, and when did he know it?", asked 53 years ago tomorrow, unintentionally became the opportunity for White House Counsel John Dean to detail Nixon conversations which implicated Nixon in the cover-up of his aides' Baker-styled "rogue activity", the Watergate break-in.
It didn't take long for Baker to realize Nixon also was guilty.
At length seven Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee joined all the Democrats in voting to impeach Nixon by July 1974.
Had Nixon not taped himself, however, there would have been no Smoking Gun tape from June 23, 1972, which showed that the president ordered H. R. Haldeman to use the CIA to stop the FBI's investigation into the Watergate break-in six days earlier.
It doesn't get more Deep State than that.
The release of its transcript on August 5, 1974 convinced everybody that Nixon obstructed justice and covered it up. That's what sent Goldwater & Co. to the White House on August 7th.
Nixon announced his resignation the very next day and left office August 9, 1974.
Nobody took down Richard Nixon except Richard Nixon.
By August 1974 66% of the country had joined this so-called Deep State conspiracy against Nixon, which marked an astounding reversal from the
67% who had approved of him in January 1973.
Trump's not far behind Nixon at 58.6% disapproval just one month ago.
We'll see what mood the country is in to get rid of him shortly. The November election will be a referendum on this.
A healthy republic repents of its mistakes, and a Christian society accepts that repentance.
