{"id":464372,"date":"2022-06-17T02:54:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watergate-gave-rise-to-the-culture-war\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T02:54:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:54:49","slug":"watergate-gave-rise-to-the-culture-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watergate-gave-rise-to-the-culture-war\/","title":{"rendered":"#Watergate gave rise to the culture war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_88 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6ac28e7005abe\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6ac28e7005abe\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watergate-gave-rise-to-the-culture-war\/#%E2%80%9CWatergate_gave_rise_to_the_culture_war%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watergate gave rise to the culture war&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatergate_gave_rise_to_the_culture_war%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watergate gave rise to the culture war&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Fifty years ago Friday, five men were arrested for burglarizing the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex.\u00a0That set off a sad chain of events that changed the course of American history \u2014 and gave rise to an increasingly\u00a0leftist ruling class that\u2019s weaponized key\u00a0institutions, including\u00a0the press, national-security <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>aratus and law enforcement, to achieve its ends.<\/p>\n<p>When I served as foreign-policy assistant to President Richard Nixon during his last years, we\u2019d discuss Watergate occasionally.\u00a0As the 20th\u00a0anniversary of the break-in approached, he recalled the radicals\u2019 hostility toward him, ascribing it to his role in exposing and prosecuting establishment darling Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy \u2014\u00a0which also raised the explosive question of Communist influence in the government \u2014 and his handling of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who were after me,\u201d he said to me, \u201cweren\u2019t interested in Watergate as much as they were interested in getting me on Hiss and on Vietnam. I gave them what they needed, but believe me, Watergate was just the excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/richard-nixon.jpg?w=680\" alt=\"Richard Nixon\" class=\"wp-image-22696369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/richard-nixon.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1360 1360w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/richard-nixon.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1020 1020w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/richard-nixon.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=680 680w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/richard-nixon.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=340 340w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/richard-nixon.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\"\/><figcaption>Former President Richard Nixon said that Watergate was \u201cjust the excuse\u201d to go after him. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAre you saying that if it weren\u2019t Watergate it would have been something else?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s my theory,\u201d he replied. He believed that since he was immune to the intellectual viruses of the leftist elites, they <em>had<\/em> to bring him down.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to excuse Nixon\u2019s behavior. His central role in the coverup \u2014 for which he accepted full responsibility \u2014 torpedoed his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>He later admitted to having been blind to the threat he posed to entrenched establishment power. \u201cThere are standards for Democrats, standards for Republicans; then there were standards for me. I was in a totally different category,\u201d he told me. \u201cI should have known that I . . . couldn\u2019t even sneeze . . . without someone ordering an investigation. So to that extent, I was stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/brett-kavanaugh-home-protestors.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Brett Kavanaugh Home\" class=\"wp-image-22696387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/brett-kavanaugh-home-protestors.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/brett-kavanaugh-home-protestors.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/brett-kavanaugh-home-protestors.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Left wing protestors outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After they claimed Nixon\u2019s scalp, these newly emboldened forces ramped up their efforts to undermine leaders they considered obstacles to their agenda: Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Soon they sought to crush all opposition, particularly those they could not control, ferociously attacking Supreme Court nominees such as Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh \u2014\u00a0and even average Americans attending Tea Party protests, Trump rallies or school-board meetings.<\/p>\n<p>This required turning critical institutions against us.\u00a0The Justice Department and FBI became dangerously political, operating a two-tiered justice system in which wrongthinkers (like Gen. Michael Flynn and nonviolent Jan. 6 protesters) are disproportionately punished while leftist elites (like Hillary Clinton and Michael Sussmann) skate.\u00a0As the outsider who spurned the corrupt establishment in favor of hardworking Americans, Donald Trump represented an existential threat. So these rotted organizations knowingly perpetuated the Russia hoax against a sitting president, crippling America in the process, and buried the truth about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Now they\u2019re targeting parents for defending their kids. The radicals also weaponized education to indoctrinate children to hate America and embrace <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ism, critical race theory and abusive sexualization.<\/p>\n<p>The media openly work hand-in-glove with the left and Big Tech to silence speech, cancel dissenters and memory-hole truth.\u00a0And the culture is directed by a nearly monolithic leftism; witness Disney\u2019s disastrous foray into woke virtue-signaling.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/hillary-clinton.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Hillary Clinton\" class=\"wp-image-22696396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/hillary-clinton.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/hillary-clinton.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/hillary-clinton.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Hillary Clinton has not been prosecuted by the Justice Department. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This modern cycle of national destruction began when the radicals saw an opportunity to take Nixon out. Though he was often derided as paranoid, Nixon had real enemies committed to his destruction, and he was equally committed to counterattacking, resulting in a harrowing dance of mutual annihilation.<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar? Those same dark forces will continue to wage ruthless war on anyone else who challenges their unaccountable power and corrupt status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Watergate cast a large shadow over American politics and deepened an existing culture of political mistrust, to be sure.\u00a0But it also normalized the criminalization of policy differences that has corroded our institutions and accelerated a dangerous tribalism that threatens our national cohesion.\u00a0As a result, the left and its ruling-class handmaidens have felt increasingly empowered and justified in using all necessary means to achieve their ends.<\/p>\n<p>The break-in\u2019s 50th\u00a0anniversary will give the press a fresh opportunity to resurrect the long-ago scandal while minimizing current outrages, from skyrocketing inflation and gas prices to the open southern border to Biden family corruption.\u00a0The left\u2019s long march, turning our institutions into weapons of ideological war and torching any opposition along the way, rolls on.\u00a0In retrospect, it\u2019s clear their\u00a0success in removing Nixon supercharged their mission.<\/p>\n<p><em>Monica Crowley is the host of the Monica Crowley<\/em>\u00a0<em>Podcast.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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