2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: MAY I ask this: Do people here who remember Watergate [View all]2banon
(7,321 posts)My In-Laws were staunch Nixon supporters and were simply besides themselves in DENIAL wrt to any WRONG DOING whatsoever,
Though they watched every minute of the hearings, yet still in denial that anything other than a partisanship witch hunt on the part of DP was at the heart of the matter.
Which of course was infact true.
Laws were broken, and they're broken by politicians holding high office all the time. It's just a question of how badly the opposition intends to make political hay out of, and how will it impact their own position and benefit.
But that's kinda the point here in so far as political contests and political legacy works. A lot of ethically, morally, and legally challenged baggage to play with for the opposition.
Another poster put it quite well, I forget the exact wording so paraphrasing:
'it's hard to save a party when it doesn't seem to want to save itself' .
Again, I'm astonished the party elite decided to throw their support behind a person that is deeply and closely connected to one of the most morally bankrupt individual in recent political history.
Astonishing.
again: 'it's hard to save a party when it doesn't seem to want to save itself'
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