Opinion: Nixon was bad. Trump is much worse.
with the House inquiry and denying requests for witnesses and documents without claiming any legitimate reason to do so. Nixon knew and feared that Republicans would affirm, in the end, the duty of Congress to serve as a check on the executive. Trump knows, however, that whatever the Constitution might say, today’s quisling Republican Party will have his back.
Trump has even turned law-and-order Republicans into fiery critics of the FBI. They sound like 1960s campus radicals as they rail against abuses and warn of the dawning of a police state. It would be nice if this new GOP concern for civil liberties were genuine. It would be nice if they were as concerned about electronic surveillance of, say, Muslim religious scholars and Chinese American computer scientists as they are about surveillance of Carter Page. But, of course, they are not..
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