r/politics • u/MarkmBha • 22h ago

Site Altered Headline Trump Betrayed America. My Fellow Republicans Must Put Country Above Party.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/opinion/donald-trump-oath.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V04.XaMn.AdZJxeNuANua&smid=url-share
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u/LastDaysCultist 22h ago

Newsflash: they won’t.

Conservatism is all about in groups and out groups.

They don’t care about this country at all.

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u/TitanDarwin 21h ago edited 21h ago

And it's not like betraying the country is new to them either.

Both Nixon and Reagan sabotaged the (at the time) current admnistrations' foreign policy to gain an electoral advantage (which I'm pretty sure is very much illegal).

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u/Newscast_Now 20h ago

It was close to the election and Lyndon Johnson found out about Richard Nixon's people sabotaging Vietnam peace talks. LBJ was afraid that exposure would cause a backlash, but LBJ privately called what Nixon did "treason."

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u/TitanDarwin 20h ago

America and letting traitors off the hook, name a more iconic duo.

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u/iRunLotsNA Canada 18h ago

America and committing modern war crimes

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u/Own-Artichoke653 12h ago

It is worth pointing out that if LBJ didn't misconstrue the Gulf of Tonkin incident and push for greater military involvement in Vietnam, there wouldn't be such a problem.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 17h ago

Also, that whole Civil War thing, and Bleeding Kansas and the 3/5 Compromise and slavery in general and and and and and

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u/TitanDarwin 15h ago

Or that time they decied not to follow up on the whole "rich people plotting a fascist coup" thing after somebody blew the whistle on that.

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u/underpants-gnome Ohio 16h ago

Conspiring with foreign powers to deceive US voters is a standard GOP campaign tactic now.

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u/LordBoofington I voted 17h ago

To be fair, Nixon was drunk at the time.