Watergate destroyed the Republican Party brand for a generation.
Democrats have forgotten the reason why Watergate helped them dominate American politics for the next generation. No one thought it possible elected officials at the very highest levels would bald-facedly lie to them in real-time ― until it was proven to them on live TV.
Voters have seen the duplicity of Democratic elected officials on display at every level for the past 16 years. The four years under President Joe Biden saw the very “best” (sic) liberal spinmeisters show their “talents” to lie about everything from Russian collusion (debunked totally), protection of the border (we just needed a new president to enforce immigration laws, not a new policy) and Hunter Biden (what else can be said?).
What if the lying was only the tip of the iceberg? What if any of the speculation about the corruption going on in the Biden administration winds up being true and proven in court? On live television?
Had President Richard Nixon admitted he authorized the break-in of Democratic headquarters at the Watergate Hotel complex in Washington, D.C., during the 1972 campaign and apologized to the American public, he would have finished his second term in 1976.
He might not have finished with very high approval ratings, but no president ever does, really.
Authorizing the Watergate break-in was one of the dumbest things anyone has ever done in American politics. Everyone ― including his hapless Democratic opponent, liberal South Dakota Sen. George McGovern ― knew Nixon was going to win in a landslide election under any circumstance.
Nixon committed three more catastrophic political mistakes no politician or party can survive: He authorized the cover-up of the crime and then proceeded to lie about it ― while he was taping every conversation about Watergate in the Oval Office.
He, his aides and advisers tried to “defend the indefensible,” which is always a bad idea.
The 1974 midterm elections were a disaster for Republicans all around, including state and local elections. Citizens lost trust not only in the GOP but also in government institutions themselves.
Democrats picked up 49 seats in Congress and five in the U.S. Senate. The “constitutional crisis” relating to Watergate had more to do with the personal stupidity and paranoia of Nixon than anything else.
American voters will forgive politicians who make mistakes — look at President Bill Clinton.
What voters won’t forgive is politicians or a party lying about what they are doing and what their true intentions are on any issue facing the public.
What if a disgruntled Democrat operative becomes their “John Dean” and, in return for immunity and not going to prison, spills the beans about how Democrats aided and abetted illegal drug and human trafficking by keeping the Mexican border wide open?
What if a senior legal adviser to Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, etc. finds Jesus like Chuck Colson and testifies about how they funneled foreign money illegally through Act Blue, Arabella Advisors and George Soros to get their socialist candidates elected to Congress, state legislatures and judicial posts?
What if a “Deep Throat” contact like FBI assistant director Mark Felt emerges and tells some enterprising young podcasters to “Follow the money!” and they find out Democrats have lined their pockets through graft and corruption with government money from NGOs, and it all goes back to President Barack Obama working out of the basement of his Kalorama mansion in northwest D.C.?
The favorability rating for the Democratic Party is already at an all-time low of 27%. If any of the speculations above are proven to be true, its ratings will fall to absolute zero on the Kelvin scale. They will be obliterated for generations as a major party in American elections.
Democrats in North Carolina have lost close to 400,000 registered voters in the last decade. Even moderate Southern Democrats can’t stomach their extreme left positions allowing biological men to play against women in sports, supporting the “right” (again, sic) of illegal immigrants who are known killers and rapists to stay in America, and turning a blind eye to the violence and destruction caused by Black Lives Matter and pro-Palestinian radical protestors.
If Democrats want to go the way of the dodo bird, the passenger pigeon and the Federalist Party, by all means, they should continue to follow AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Bernie Sanders and Schumer off the cliff like a herd of lemmings.
Every Watergate participant will be glad to relinquish their top spot in the Pantheon of Stupid Things Done In American Political History to them.
