The BIG difference between the current move to impeach Donald Trump and the Watergate impeachment of Tricky Dick Nixon is that way back then, there wasn't any Fox News. And so, without any big right wing Republican propaganda machine to back them up, Republican senators had to rely more on listening to their own conscience, and other old-fashioned things that have since gone out of style on the right. I believe that Roger Ailes, who was the father of Fox News, worked for Nixon, didn't he? And probably the key to his vision for founding Fox News was, in large part, to make it much more difficult to impeach rogue Republican presidents in the future, who abused their power like Nixon did. I believe that Nixon, and every Republican president after him, cheated in some way, shape or form in order to win the White House. Nixon told the North Vietnamese to hold off on the peace talks, because he had a better deal waiting for them. President Johnson flat out called it treason - which it definitely was, since we were still at war with the North Vietnamese. Reagan could well have had Carter's rescue attempt for the Iran hostages sabotaged to win the White House. And with Baby Bush - he could well have had his brother Jeb purge enough blacks from the voter roles in Florida to put him in the White House. In spite of the damning testimony from career diplomats about Trump hijacking US foreign policy for his own personal political gain in ways that are totally brazen and unprecedented in our nation's history, perhaps it is not as unprecedented as it seems at first glance. After all, Republican presidential candidates have been cheating to win the presidency for a long time now. In addition to being way more blatant and brazen in degree, the current scandal for which Trump is being impeached could well be the first time that a sitting president has abused the powers of his office in an attempt to defeat a political rival in a re-election campaign.
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