Whistlebritches wrote:Come on Al do you really think Nixon and Trump are even in the same league with Billary and Obumma?
No, Billary and Obama are bush leaguers, within norms of previous POTUS, compared to Nixon, a major leaguer...Trump exists in his own class, bigly big league All-Star, MVP, HOF, GOAT until someone more Trumpian comes along...prolly not in our lifetimes...
the major difference between Nixon and Trump is that Nixon was constrained by members of his own party....Trump has carte blanche from the GOP...in fact he IS the GOP...so his crooked behavior has exceeded Nixon's and will continue to do so until he is voted out of office...he is definitely an outlier, since no other person has come to be recognized as the head of either party as Trump has done...there will be a re-alignment of GOP values when Trump is gone...most likely to those values that existed before...
after the Trump reign of corruption is over, Americans will demand that Congress enact laws restraining potential POTUS abuse of power, criminalizing some of his behavior...
we will see some movement by Congress to re-assert itself as a Constitutional co-equal branch of government when McConnell is voted out, or the Dems regain a majority of the Senate...I especially see that happening if there is a GOP controlled Congress and a Dem POTUS...which may not happen for a while...