Last night my former boss called me.

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22. And if we want to go back one cycle earlier

Nixon committed treason by making a deal to delay Vietnam peace talks to win that election See Chennault Affair.

The only Republicans to take the Presidency in the past 70 years without an obvious case of Treason or vote rigging were Ford and GHW Bush. But of course, GHW Bush was the point man on Reagan's rotten deal to delay the hostage release in 1980, so we can hardly let him off the hook.

As I have been saying here, our problems did not begin with Trump. The fascists have been at it, using any means available, for 75 years. FDR was the very definition of populism, and that connects with the people. After FDR, Democrats were fat, dumb, and happy, thinking things would just carry on as they had under FDR. We now have 3 generations of Dems who have never stood up for much of anything, never really taken on the fight with any urgency. They became the party of white papers, and in the process, became much less connected with broad America.

Those generation are a lost cause, yet the last of them (Boomers) cling to power ferociously, even though they have no intention of using the power when they actually have the opportunities. We now have about 100 progressives in the House, but they are mostly blocked from leadership by the Boomer hangers-on. We really can't wait for all the boomers to die. We need to aggressively push and promote the younger progressives into leadership.