| Nixon was one of the first elected officials to come to the realization that the American left is not a "loyal opposition", but an adversary at war with the United States and the ideals upon which it was founded. He allowed his people to break the law because it was, until then, accepted practice, and because the American left-unlike, say, Imperial Japan-is an internal enemy, committed-among other things-to using a corruption of the letter and spirit of American law against the nation. Nixon was guilty of tactical error to a great degree, and-as Gordon Liddy points out-a lack of the appropriately-required ruthlessness necessary for the task. As a result, he lost, and the left won, and so history is written. Clinton's crimes were about self-satisfaction, self-aggrandizement, and self-interest. That is what makes him so much more corrupt than Nixon... |
