Thread by @craigunger

1/ If you’re surprised we’re in this mess, you haven’t been paying attention to history. As I show in my new book, Den of Spies, , the GOP has been engaged in treasonous assaults on democracy for more than 50 years. (Reposts are greatly appreciated.)harpercollins.com/products/den-o…

2/It started w/ Nixon’s election in 1968. Back then, Nixon “secretly deputized GOP operative Anna Chennault to intervene on his behalf and talk directly to the powers that be in South Vietnam” to make sure they would NOT participate in the Paris Peace Talks.
Sure enough, South Vietnam withdrew from the peace talks, Nixon won, and the war continued for six more years, resulting in another twenty thousand unnecessary American deaths, not to mention millions of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese casualties. But it remained a secret until too late. The Dems didn’t fight back.

3/When Nixon ran for reelection in '72, he was petrified that LBJ would release documents and tapes re the Chennault Affair, so he put together a group of burglars known as The Plumbers to break in and steal the documents from various offices--including the Watergate complex.Even though Woodward & Bernstein reported on it through the summer of ’72, the Dems didn’t fight back, Nixon was reelected in a landslide, and was only forced out of office when GOP senators convince Nixon to resign.

4/ In my new book, Den of Spies, you can read all about the GOP’s treasonous covert op that won the election for them in 1980. . Again, the Dems didn’t fight back and allowed a congressional investigation to cover it all up.harpercollins.com/products/den-o…

5/In 2000, the so-called Brooks Brothers riots in Fla featured scores of middle-aged white GOP lawyers led by Roger Stone, among other operatives, in an assault on election canvassers that stopped vote counting in highly Democratic precincts. Again, the Dems didn’t fight back enough and that left the decision about who would be president in the hands of the GOP-aligned Supreme Court.

6/In 2016, Trump, who had been targeted as an intelligence asset by the KGB years earlier, openly urged Russia to interfere on his behalf in the presidential election. Again, the Democrats didn’t fight back.

7/On January 6, 2021, three months after the 2020 election, Trump incited tens of thousands of followers to storm the Capitol in hopes of overturning the election. This time, Merrick Garland's Justice Department did not take action until too late.

8/And now, as Trump is about to take office once again and seize dictatorial powers, the Democrats had better fight back as fiercely as possible or our democracy will be over—once and for all.