These scandals all seem to have one thing in common…
It is my understanding that a deal was made with Iran to release the hostages after Holy Saint Reagan was inaugurated, just to embarass Carter.
HSR was giving aid & comfort to a foe; and Ollie North should’ve been courts-martialed for his role in circumventing Congress.
Instead, they are both still revered in some circles.
He got away with it because Nixon was pardoned & faced no real consequences.
The Presidential Pardon has been a useful tool for covering up GOP corruption ever since.
Besides, HSR had ‘plausible deniability’ and lots of worshipers; he also had layers of underlings who took the fall for him & dozens were convicted.
Then Old Man Bush pardoned a number of them when he became POTUS, so he was able to cover up his own involvement.
I don’t think there has been a single honorable GOPer to occupy the Oval Office since Eisenhower.
Paraphrasing P.J. O’Rourke:
“Republicans like to say that government doesn’t work. Then they get elected and prove it.”
They have, for decades, spewed the narrative that Government Is Bad [except when WE run it]; and they have whole ecosystems of El Rushbo wannabes parroting the same things… and worse.
No such infrastructure exists on the left.
The best we can hope for is for the GOP to continue to implode and for Dems to vote in droves next year. A wipeout will give some impetus to real change.
Uncle Joe had better give some serious consideration to massively expanding the SCOTUS so we can have a chance at undoing some of the fuckery that’s been done over the years…
“We have always been at war with Eastasia.”
