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I would also consider the President being involved at all in an ongoing criminal investigation into a child sex trafficking ring as a giant fucking red flag but that's just me.
They impeached Clinton for less.
Nixon resigned over some bugged phones, now our ‘leaders’ are taking vacations to fucking Moscow and openly bragging about their corruption
To be clear, the reason Fox News and dozens of other right wing propaganda outlets exist is precisely because the news coverage made anything else untenable for Nixon.
That is how long republicans have been working to overturn and eradicate our democracy.
Indeed, then Reagan was happy to carry on the torch with the Mulford Act which was just good old fashioned racism.
Reinstating the Fairness doctrine and repealing citizens united are two major steps, although a new SS roaming the streets is where we’re at and a couple steps past informed opinion being the chief concern.
We need to follow the Marine’s example (with better opsec) and start making life hell for the Nazis who shop at your local Walmart
spearheaded by gringrich no less, who started the whole "never work with the other side" movement.