{"id":44692,"date":"2019-03-23T09:12:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44692"},"modified":"2019-03-23T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:13:00","slug":"watergate-the-first-deep-state-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44692","title":{"rendered":"Watergate\u2014the First Deep State Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/watergate-the-first-deep-state-coup\/\">Watergate\u2014the First Deep State Coup<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NixonWatergate.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Greatest-Comeback-Richard-Defeat-Majority\/dp\/0553418653\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81sOFjTXSLL.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/writers\/james-fulford\">James Fulford<\/a>&nbsp;writes:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>The Mueller Report, which was supposed to be about alleged \u201cRussian collusion\u201d with Trump, is due out, and many people in the Democrat\/Media conglomerate are hoping for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2019\/03\/19\/world\/europe\/19reuters-usa-trump-russia-investigations-explainer.html\">rerun of Watergate<\/a>, which they think of as a victory for the Rule of Law. It wasn\u2019t, and we need to have one of those famous \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/search?q=have%20a%20conversation\">conversations<\/a>\u201d about what it was, and why it mustn\u2019t happen again.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In 1972, Richard Nixon was reelected with 520 electoral votes. He was running on winning the Vietnam War and also fighting a War on Crime. His opponent,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/mcgovern-goldwater-weren-t-losers-their-legacy-still-lives-on-right-and-left-far-left-in-the-case-of-obama\">George McGovern<\/a>&nbsp;(17 electoral votes) was running on a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/a-bright-shining-lie-john-paul-vann-and-america-in-vietnam\">plan<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/itsallpolitics\/2012\/10\/22\/163355049\/george-mcgovern-an-improbable-icon-of-anti-war-movement\">lose the Vietnam War,<\/a>&nbsp;and surrender on the War on Crime.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>But by August 1974, Nixon was removed from office, and in April 1975, Vietnamese Communist troops occupied Saigon. What finished off South Vietnam was the \u201cWatergate Congress\u201d which voted to cut off all supplies. For details see James Webb\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameswebb.com\/articles\/military-and-veterans\/peace-defeat-what-did-the-vietnam-war-protesters-want\">Peace? Defeat? What Did the Vietnam War Protesters Want?<\/a>American Enterprise Institute,&nbsp;<em>May\/June 1997.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Who did this? Well, the Democrat-controlled Senate investigated the hell out of a break-and-enter committed by Republicans, which they never did when LBJ, JFK, Truman, and FDR engaged in similar activities. See&nbsp;<\/em>It Didn\u2019t Start With Watergate&nbsp;<em>, [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/LaskyVictorItDidntStartWithWatergate\">PDF<\/a>]by Victor Lasky, published in 1977. On the Senate investigative staff was a young, far-Left Wellesley graduate named&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/hillary-clinton-to-be-played-by-carey-mulligan\">Hillary Clinton.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Democratic media, which hated Nixon with the same kind of hate they now display towards Trump, did the same thing, led by the famous Woodward and Bernstein, who probably get too much \u201ccredit\u201d for this.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watergate\u2014the First Deep State Coup James Fulford&nbsp;writes:&nbsp;The Mueller Report, which was supposed to be about alleged \u201cRussian collusion\u201d with Trump, is due out, and many people in the Democrat\/Media conglomerate are hoping for a&nbsp;rerun of Watergate, which they think of as a victory for the Rule of Law. It wasn\u2019t, and we need to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2321,24777,4219,19452,827],"class_list":["post-44692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-coup","tag-peter-brimelow","tag-richard-nixon","tag-the-unz-review","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44693,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44692\/revisions\/44693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}