Nixon at least understood the people had a right to know. Trump's crowd has decided that people have no rights the president needs to respect and they’ll keep believing that exactly as long as we let them.
The generations that defeated fascism in the 1770s, 1860s, and 1940s understood something simple but profound: democracy survives only if ordinary people are willing to defend it. Are we today?
Behind the rhetoric of “election integrity” lies a coordinated effort to purge voter rolls of Democrats, shut down Black access to the ballot, and reshape the electorate before 2026 and 2028.
It is not conservatism, this new “one man above all” ideology that drives today’s GOP. It’s raw, naked evil. And it’s about damn time that Democrats and Americans of good will begin to call it out for what it is.