Seeing the comparison just now made me think about the fact that Heritage Foundation was created in large part because there were many Republicans (even within Nixon’s own administration) who didn’t believe he was conservative enough.
There’s even conspiracy theories that members of the intelligence community started intentionally bungling orders/jobs that they were carrying out for Nixon (including Watergate) to create public scandals and give him enough rope to hang himself.
So while it was a very big moment for America to see Nixon get impeached, the next Republican POTUS (Reagan) was carefully groomed before opening the door to allow the Heritage Foundation into the White House. This marked the beginning of the modern day far right movement and the creation of a post truth consensus reality by a president and his administration to control the American people on a massive scale.
TLDR: I shudder to think about what comes after Trump if Americans never pull their heads out of the sand relationship between wealthy conservatives who own corporations and the U.S. intelligence agencies they fund.
This is so sad but very true.
Seeing the comparison just now made me think about the fact that Heritage Foundation was created in large part because there were many Republicans (even within Nixon’s own administration) who didn’t believe he was conservative enough.
There’s even conspiracy theories that members of the intelligence community started intentionally bungling orders/jobs that they were carrying out for Nixon (including Watergate) to create public scandals and give him enough rope to hang himself.
So while it was a very big moment for America to see Nixon get impeached, the next Republican POTUS (Reagan) was carefully groomed before opening the door to allow the Heritage Foundation into the White House. This marked the beginning of the modern day far right movement and the creation of a post truth consensus reality by a president and his administration to control the American people on a massive scale.
TLDR: I shudder to think about what comes after Trump if Americans never pull their heads out of the sand relationship between wealthy conservatives who own corporations and the U.S. intelligence agencies they fund.