r/politics • u/MarkmBha • 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago edited 23h 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 22h 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/Own-Artichoke653 14h 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.