Nor under Bush43 , nor Clinton, nor Bush41, nor Reagan (not much).

In thinking about how to make the gov’t better, my current best idea is to have an FBI group primarily going after Dems, and another one primarily going after Reps, with both going after all gov’t employees (especially FBI & CIA etc). We need the laws to apply to both Reps & Dems, pretty equally.

Funny sad at how honest, yet inept and naive, was Jimmy Carter. The recent Israel – Hamas flare up is partly because the dirty Shah was replaced by a far worse Ayatollah Khomeini. Selective moral outrage is lousy (outrageous!), all too often.

After I read Roger Stone’s book I realized how much more was in play with the FBI and CIA lifers. It is worth reading. Nixon was manipulated in ways I had not understood.

Only Nixon could go to China, and Nixon did go to China. I was constantly appreciative during his terms at his desire to actually address big problems with big solutions.

but the left still burned for revealing Alger Hiss, and also the embrace with China,
in the early part of the terrors,

We need 3 FBIs: one Republican controlled against Dems, one Democrat controlled against Reps, and one (small? large?) that is non-political.

Similarly, it wasn’t the FBI lying to the FISA courts, it was certain people. Who remain essentially unpunished, as so many Dem deep state criminals do.

We also need a firing offense allowing “preponderance of evidence” against US gov’t officials, so far more are fired for illegal actions that they wouldn’t be convicted for.

The recent book by Roger Stone: The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ has a lot about the various people in the FBI and CIA who decided Nixon had to go and created a convoluted situation that he ultimately got drawn into and destroyed by.

I hope I live long enough to see the whole thing blow up. I think it will. Lots of participants are aging out. Kennedy running will help.

The level of disgust with the Uniparty is something I never believed would happen, but it is. The skeptical group that follows Scott Adams, Tucker Carlson, Russell Brand, et al. is growing exponentially, and the guardians of the Uniparty are finally aging out.

The Cancellations are backfiring. The vaccines are the new asbestos. The Twitter Files happened. DeSantis changed Florida registrations from Democrat to hugely Republican, showing what can happen when Conservative ideas are actually implemented.

The best example in our history of how Swampians may look in ten years is the revulsion toward the Planter Class after the Civil War.

But at this point, I was already turning conservative, having seen the fruits of busing in person, at school, every day, while witnessing the preening self-indulgence of the nitwits that organized it – but couldn’t be bothered to evaluate the results of their efforts. At the grocery, I would receive a daily learning experience on the eating habits of food stamp recipients, to compare to my own in a house where father was unemployed and struggling hard to find work, with mother working as a teacher. Rough times, but not catastrophic. The welfare queens were eating a lot better than we were, though.

But for the life of me, I couldn’t see that Nixon was a bad President, nor that he had done much more than to defend his people, unadvisedly. He made a serious mistake and was hung out and dressed by the media, with top coaching from the FBI, as we now know. Nice to see that history can be even-handed sometimes. I’ll watch it.