This is such a good interview. I loved his Watergate book.
I'm glad Garrett said that if Trump gets back in office he's never leaving. I've been saying that, too! We hardly ever hear it from corporate media. What stopped me cold in your interview is when he said we might look back on Trump's first term as the good old days. We can't trust the voters entirely to keep him out, so we have to hope some of these charges/trials will slow him down.
We are in a new era regarding how we consume and interpret information. If more citizens don't learn how to think for themselves, democracy may not survive.
Let me say that this interview made me feel ancient because you both remembered Watergate through a book and a movie. I remember it as a lived experience. I watched the hearings live on television. The forgotten names you mentioned were like family friends because they were so familiar. I haven't read Mr Graff's book, but, if it serves to bring, the complex truth of Watergate to another generation, it is invaluable.
The sad truth, however, is that 50 years after Watergate, the checks on public criminality have crumbled. As Trump promotes violence and hate, his party is so wrapped up in petty intraparty feuds that none of them acknowledges that democracy is being destroyed. No one says enough; no one says this man is destroying democracy. We are at a critical tipping point, or maybe we have passed that point.
I used to believe that our country can survive bad presidents. Now I question that belief.
Amy, I was a kid but I too remember those dramatic hearings. They had a big effect on me as I began to understand how checks and balances are supposed to work -- and did. Then.
This is such a good interview. I loved his Watergate book.
I'm glad Garrett said that if Trump gets back in office he's never leaving. I've been saying that, too! We hardly ever hear it from corporate media. What stopped me cold in your interview is when he said we might look back on Trump's first term as the good old days. We can't trust the voters entirely to keep him out, so we have to hope some of these charges/trials will slow him down.
That blew me away, too.
I still cannot believe Trump was President. Maybe that's why my mind cannot even go to that time being the good ol' days.
Great interview. Lots of stuff to think about.
We are in a new era regarding how we consume and interpret information. If more citizens don't learn how to think for themselves, democracy may not survive.
I agree. Thank you.
Let me say that this interview made me feel ancient because you both remembered Watergate through a book and a movie. I remember it as a lived experience. I watched the hearings live on television. The forgotten names you mentioned were like family friends because they were so familiar. I haven't read Mr Graff's book, but, if it serves to bring, the complex truth of Watergate to another generation, it is invaluable.
The sad truth, however, is that 50 years after Watergate, the checks on public criminality have crumbled. As Trump promotes violence and hate, his party is so wrapped up in petty intraparty feuds that none of them acknowledges that democracy is being destroyed. No one says enough; no one says this man is destroying democracy. We are at a critical tipping point, or maybe we have passed that point.
I used to believe that our country can survive bad presidents. Now I question that belief.
Amy, I was a kid but I too remember those dramatic hearings. They had a big effect on me as I began to understand how checks and balances are supposed to work -- and did. Then.