I’d take it back further - Not wholesale hanging the leadership of the Confederacy and pursuing a tolerant reconciliation after the Civil War, which allowed the Jim Crow laws and the “Lost Cause” myth to flourish set the path for racism and division to flourish.
I’d take it back further - Not wholesale hanging the leadership of the Confederacy and pursuing a tolerant reconciliation after the Civil War, which allowed the Jim Crow laws and the “Lost Cause” myth to flourish set the path for racism and division to flourish.
Yep. Andrew Johnson. If he had been removed via impeachment, the southern seeds of fascism could have been executed like the traitors they were.
In addition, Nixon probably would have been a hell of a lot more careful because impeachment wouldn’t have been a merely theoretical possibility.
Each failed impeachment further cements the idea that presidents are untouchable, leading up to the current situation.