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RE: seattle.pink/@mxchara/11697246…
I'd like to take this specific matter up again, the Dick #Nixon problem. The U.S. public has been invited to be far more forgiving and charitable towards Richard Nixon than he deserves. This was a policy right from the start; the GOP scheme to insure Nixon's pardon has been considered a sound resolution to the whole affair and that is clearly wrong.
An unholy fixation on executive clemency as a political weapon has invaded U.S. #politics thanks to the Nixon pardon. This has a moral dimension: according to the moral standards of Christofascism, a Trump pardon is exactly equivalent to a plenary indulgence.
(cont'd)
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen (@mxchara@seattle.pink)
Nixon was *unusually* cheerless and grumpy because he had a residual conscience, a memory of being touched by the faithful spirit of his Quaker mother, who referred to her children in the old Quaker way--avoiding the overfamiliar "you" and sticking w…Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen (seattle dot pink)
The #DeepState didn’t take down #Nixon.
So why did #JDVance say it did?
Nixon’s #Crimes, the #Courts, #Congress & the #FreePress drove #Watergate.
Such a scandal of #crime & #corruption could easily happen again — [especially in a nation where #Trump controls the #press, the rule of #law only applies to his enemies & the courts have been subjugated by a #corrupt #SCOTUS].
#Trumpaganda #propaganda #Republicans #RevisionistHistory #UShistory #law #criminal
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