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"President Nixon was providing valuable job opportunities for covert operatives."

@emarktaylor No. Today that whole story would be buried. Instead would be debate about whether Nixon has the right to arrest congress and have them executed by the military. The courts would shrug and say, "Yeah, like he's God's emissary on Earth so what you think?"

Republicans would be praising his close ties to Stalin, praise of Hitler, and fully supportive of all his family's close dealings with all our enemies. The people running the coup now would have won half a century Same. People

@emarktaylor Back in the day when journalism was something to be proud of...
@emarktaylor Historian Rick Perlstein (Nixonland et al) was just on the Know Your Enemy podcast and pointed out that something very much like this did in fact happen during Watergate. There was apparently pressure to note some item of Democratic malfeasance along w/ coverage of the actual crimes.