Blue State Blues: Why Trump Has Survived the Nixon Strategy

I used to joke, during the recent impeachment trials, that if what Donald Trump had done was “worse than Watergate,” as CNN’s Carl Bernstein said over and over again, then perhaps Watergate wasn’t so bad.

At the time, I had a conventional view of the scandal that brought down President Richard M. Nixon — the one taught in history courses, and familiar from All the President’s Men: that due to hubris and paranoia, Nixon had sought to spy on the opposition in an election he won by a landslide, and deserved to go to prison.

That narrative has unraveled slowly over the years, and it is ripped apart in an ongoing ten-part series from the Red Pilled America podcast called “The Fighter,” whose final episode is set to air Sunday.