{"id":155492,"date":"2026-06-26T15:32:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/26\/jd-vance-watergate-would-be-no-big-deal-today-hes-right-and-thats-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:32:39","slug":"jd-vance-watergate-would-be-no-big-deal-today-hes-right-and-thats-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/26\/jd-vance-watergate-would-be-no-big-deal-today-hes-right-and-thats-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance: Watergate Would Be No Big Deal Today. He\u2019s Right, And That\u2019s The Problem."},"content":{"rendered":"

I think Nixon\u2019s historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 JD Vance, during a speech a the Nixon Library<\/a>, gave a full-throated defense of the only U.S. president to resign in scandal. Vance admitted he was \u201cfascinated by Nixon as a character in history,\u201d and created a disturbing (if accurate) parallel between Nixon and Donald Trump. \u201cIf you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it\u2019s not 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 Vance said. Someone needs to hold Vance\u2019s hand while the internet<\/a> breaks<\/a> it to him<\/a> that this\u2026 is not a flex. The opposite, actually.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post JD Vance: Watergate Would Be No Big Deal Today. He\u2019s Right, And That\u2019s The Problem.<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I think Nixon\u2019s historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 JD Vance, during a speech a the Nixon Library<\/a>, gave a full-throated defense of the only U.S. president to resign in scandal. Vance admitted he was \u201cfascinated by Nixon as a character in history,\u201d and created a disturbing (if accurate) parallel between Nixon and Donald Trump. \u201cIf you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it\u2019s not 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 Vance said. Someone needs to hold Vance\u2019s hand while the internet<\/a> breaks<\/a> it to him<\/a> that this\u2026 is not a flex. The opposite, actually.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post JD Vance: Watergate Would Be No Big Deal Today. He\u2019s Right, And That\u2019s The Problem.<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think Nixon\u2019s historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy. \u2014 JD Vance, during a speech a the Nixon Library, gave a full-throated defense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}