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\n\tPresident Donald Trump\u2019s corruption is so pervasive that the types of scandals that once would have toppled \u2014 or at least threatened \u2014 the stability of a presidency barely register as a blip in the news cycle. J.D. Vance likes it this way, and is now trying to retroactively apply the low standard across history.<\/p>\n

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\n\tOn Thursday, the vice president claimed that Richard Nixon, the only American president ever to resign from office in the face of a scandal, was experiencing a \u201crenaissance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy,\u201d Vance mused, going on to claim that the way the \u201cdeep state\u201d had taken down Nixon was \u201cnot all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRewinding back to the 1970, Watergate was the series of scandals and investigations tied to the 1972 burglarizing and attempted wire tapping of the DNC headquarters at the Watergate hotel in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration\u2019s attempts to cover up the president\u2019s alleged involvement in a widespread political espionage program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tNow, Vance is partially right, but not for the reasons he thinks he is. If Waterate happened today, it would likely not become the administration-ending quagmire it was for Nixon. This isn\u2019t because it wasn\u2019t an arguably criminal and definitely unethical abuse of presidential powers (had Nixon not resigned, he would likely have been impeached and forcibly removed), but because the modern Republican Party has baked criminality and corruption into their very identity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tConsider the current president. Just in the last two years, he used his reelection to secure a truly mind boggling amount of personal profit. Through shady business contacts, donations, \u201cgifts\u201d from parties with interests before the government, lawsuits, and investments, Trump has managed to pull in billions in cash for himself and his family while occupying the White House. This is on top of things like the Epstein scandal and alleged cover up, Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, being found liable for sexual assault, his use of federal law enforcement and justice agencies to target his political opponents, his use of the pardon power to reward his supporters, and his funneling of federal funds to his business allies. The list of Trump\u2019s scandals is, of course, endless.<\/p>\n

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\n\tVance may be trying to minimize the gravity of Watergate, but what he\u2019s actually doing is providing a clear indictment of the administration and the current Republican Party, which finds itself incapable of checking the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cVance recognizes that the Watergate break-in is like a cub scout prank compared to the massive, all-encompassing corruption and criminality of the Trump presidency,\u201d Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-Md.) wrote on X in response to the comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSome conservatives quickly moved to defend the sentiment, which didn\u2019t entirely come out of the blue. Roger Stone, one of the most consequential political operatives of the 21st century, has Nixon tattooed on his back. Tricky Dick has been an idol to a contingent of the right for some time now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNow we live in an age of information,\u201d Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.), told CNN in response to questions about Nixon\u2019s criminality. \u201cWe are moving so rapidly that a story like Watergate I don\u2019t think would last as long as it did back in the 1970s when I was a young child\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI said Nixon would be vindicated by 2030 on Bill Maher\u2019s show and the audience hissed and laughed,\u201d wrote Chris Rufo, one of the main architects of the far-right push against diversity programs. \u201cBut, by God, the Nixon Renaissance has begun and [Vance] is one of the greatest champions of the Cause.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis supposed renaissance is not actually a reexamination of Nixon\u2019s presidency or the scandals that surrounded it, but a lowering of the ethical standards expected of presidents by the Republican Party, with two of the most slimy presidents in American history serving as their posterboys.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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