Guardian: It's time for Democrats to go low

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30. I could not disagree with you more in your blaming Biden

and then Obama for where the US is politically today. The current situation has been several decades in coming, back to Reagan at least, but I'd say farther than that, back to the RW determination after WWII to undo all of FDR's legacy and return to the days of the robber barons. If you watch Rachel Maddow's documentary, Ultra, you will see that there were RW traitors in Congress, acting as Nazi agents, who were charged, tried, and made such a mockery of the legal system that they were not convicted.

I am all for full on political attacks on the RW authoritarian oligarchs by Dems and anyone else who wants to join us in resistance. I want to see MAGAs politically and socially destroyed so that they have no standing in American society. But I totally reject the notion that Biden or Obama are responsible for a movement on the right that began before Obama was born and when Biden was an infant.

Holding Nixon accountable when he resigned would have derailed the RW movement toward authoritarianism. So Gerald Ford has some responsibility for pardoning Nixon. But even after Watergate and Nixon's pardon, the race between Ford and Carter was close, so that's where the mind of the American public was in the 1970s. Racism and opposition to civil rights progress led to support for Reagan.

Republicans had no candidate who could have beat Hillary Clinton until a malignant narcissist with foreign backing stepped into national politics. In order to hold power, RW media and the Republican Party leaders embraced him. That's how we got where we are today.