You can easily substitute name "Trump" for "Nixon", except I don't yet know whether conclusion on dictatorship would be same.
This letter was written in 1995 by Archibald Cox, former Watergate Special Prosecutor. I wonder what his views would be of today's situation.
This letter was written in 1995 by Archibald Cox, former Watergate Special Prosecutor. I wonder what his views would be of today's situation.
"You ask whether Richard Nixon could have become a dictator. My answer would be strongly negative. In the fall of 1973, there were a number of rumors that he might use the military to move strongly in that direction."
"I never put much stock in them chiefly because I felt clearly that the military would not go along even in the highly unlikely event that his mind should run in that direction."
"The evil of Richard Nixon's wrongs, in addition to the immediate misdoings, were two:"
"(1) he went far to destroy confidence in the government, a trend which is running rampant; (2) he attempted to set the presidency and himself above the law in violation of the essential principle that even the President is subject to law."
