I've been contemplating the current Donnie Two Scoops national catastrophe and decided there's an identifiable cycle: Every 22 years, the Republican Party uses an election to make itself (and America) significantly worse than it already is. The cycle began in 1972, when Nixon won his second term, and his corruption resulted in the Watergate investigation.
The next big GOP shift in the wrong direction occurred 22 years later in the 1994 mid-term elections, when the so-called Gingrich Revolution enabled the party to gain majorities in Congress. The Clinton impeachment resulted, and the seeds of the tea party movement were planted.
The GOP, already rotten to the core, went completely apeshit in 2016, putting incompetent game show host Donnie Two Scoops in the White House with the help of the Russians. In less than 22 weeks, we're already seeing the preliminary hearings in the Trump/Russia investigation on TV.
For the sake of comparison, Trump/Russia = Nixon/Watergate x 10,000 and Clinton/Lewinsky x 10,000,000.
The next big GOP shift in the wrong direction occurred 22 years later in the 1994 mid-term elections, when the so-called Gingrich Revolution enabled the party to gain majorities in Congress. The Clinton impeachment resulted, and the seeds of the tea party movement were planted.
The GOP, already rotten to the core, went completely apeshit in 2016, putting incompetent game show host Donnie Two Scoops in the White House with the help of the Russians. In less than 22 weeks, we're already seeing the preliminary hearings in the Trump/Russia investigation on TV.
For the sake of comparison, Trump/Russia = Nixon/Watergate x 10,000 and Clinton/Lewinsky x 10,000,000.
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| Making Nixon look good. |
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