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Ronald Reagan to JD Vance: minimizing Watergate is a Republican tradition | Rick Perlstein
On the American right, there is an unbroken lineage of Watergate propaganda going back to the 70s from today When JD Vance spoke at the Richard M Nixon presidential library last week about his new book on his journey from atheism to an allegedly devout Catholicism, he raised eyebrows by minimizing Watergate . “The idea that it [took] down a presidency is crazy,” he said. He said it was the “deep state that took down Richard Nixon ”– not the 37th president’s implication in serious crimes. Commen…
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