The Senators walked over to the White House...

[kentuck]

...and told Mr Nixon in no uncertain terms, that he must resign or he would be impeached. They were Republicans. Unlike the quislings now in power, they cared about their country and they had backbones. It would be a long crawl for these invertebrates that now call themselves "Republicans". They are a disgrace to America.

But, we have reached a similar point in history at this very moment, in my opinion. We need 3 or 4 Senators with a love for our country and our Constitution to take the short walk to the White House. And they need to tell the criminal now occupying the Presidency that he needs to step down immediately. He has become an existential threat to our freedoms and he must go. It is a matter of national security of the highest urgency.

[Ms. Toad]

1. Trump is not Nixon.

Even though I deeply disagreed with Nixon, Nixon truly loved this country.

Trump doesn't. So no appeal to his love for the country or democracy will have any impact on Trump

[paleotn]

16. Agreed. He's a different animal entirely.

[SergeStorms]

29. A direct insult to the animal kingdom.

Trump is the slime that forms atop the feces from the animal kingdom. 😉
But I get your point.

[Grim Chieftain]

17. Trump loves Trump beyond all else

Nothing and no one else even comes close.

[poozwah]

28. how bad is it?

trump has made nixon look good. he has made warren harding look good. he has even made edith wilson look like a better president.

[riversedge]

2. Trump will not resign. He is making too much $$.

IMHO--sad, yes.

[Irish_Dem]

5. GOP Senators are probably making a great deal of money too.

[ananda]

10. Absolutely...

No question.

And who knows how many Republican officials
are on the Epstein list.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Exactly. They aren't protecting Trump. They are protecting themselves.

[calimary]

9. Yep.

[yellow dahlia]

3. There are a few factors getting in the way of repeating that.

1) Nixon was not a well balanced psychological specimen, but he was not the completely unhinged delusional maniacal monster that currently occupies the oval office.

2) The Republican Congress in 1974 was an independent entity. They were a different kind of Republican. And I assume many of them were not being controlled by threats and kompromat.

3) Nixon was (mostly) surrounded by mostly regular operatives within the party. He was not flanked by the likes of Stephen Miller and Russell Vought egging him on. His cabinet was not completely made up of incompetent sycophantic sleazes.

I think what we need is a few brave and (somewhat) ethical Republican Congress critters to start voting with Dems.

[oswaldactedalone]

4. The Senators actually told Nixon

that he would be convicted in the Senate and removed from office. At that point, there were 77 solid votes for conviction.

[kacekwl]

6. Good luck finding any republican

Congress member to look sideways at trump.

[kentuck]

7. Yes. Good luck in finding even one Republican that will speak up.

We need them to speak up but they do not have the courage.

[regnaD kciN]

8. They only made that walk...

…after they had done a head count and found that Nixon didn’t even have close to enough Republican votes to stave off conviction in the Senate upon his certain impeachment by the House.

Can you imagine any scenario where Trump wouldn’t keep a core of loyalists totaling 33 Republican Senators?

[Bluetus]

15. Exactly. They had stonewalled for months. They only moved when ...

the tapes emerged, proving that Nixon had been right in the middle of the burglary and cover-up. They did it, not out of patriotism, but to save their own asses.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. There was no Metro then. That didn't start running until 1976. NT

[joanbarnes]

13. I'm not that lucky.......

[Javaman]

14. Stephen miller would step between the orange asshole and the senators

Scream at them and tell them he’s in charge and get the fuck out.

And like true repuke fashion they would nod yes and walk away with their tails between their legs

[returnee]

18. A bit of a pipe dream, but...

…it represents a germ of a plan.
In my view, several factors must be aligned.
-there has to be a plan to get an impeachment vote past Mike Johnson. That would likely require at least several republicans to go along.
-the charge/s must be pretty much inarguable.
- enough votes for impeachment must be lined up publicly.
-Enough Senators to achieve the conviction vote must be lined up publicly.

That’s a tall order. Another failure to achieve conviction again could be more disastrous than previous impeachment attempts.

[kentuck]

20. It's possible, if his name is made public with the Epstein files....

He is already down in the polls, and if he shows prominently in the Epstein files, many Republicans would not want to run against that in next year's elections.

[returnee]

21. I'm not ruling out the possibility .

Nor am I giving up hope. Just pointing out the cogs of the wheel of impeachment that have to be in place. One thing I forgot about is the possibility of flipping the House. We’ll just have to see how things go.

[QueerDuck]

19. Back when we had a competent press and when Republicans had ethics and honor.

Now... not so much... if at all.

[BobTheSubgenius]

22. I never thought I would see this day.

Never.

Feeling even a tiny bit nostalgic for RMN blows my mind.

[Gimpyknee]

23. That's never going to happen.

These guys are all die-hard sycophants. There’s not a one with a backbone. There are no longer any Republican moderates in the Senate or House.

[peggysue2]

24. I agree with the sentiment, Kentuck . . .

But it's never going to happen.

Agent Orange is not Nixon who, for all his faults, was a loyal American. Trump is loyal only to himself and his own well-being.

The current crew of Republicans are equally compromised. They've sold their souls to a regime hellbent on destroying the country and transforming it into a police state. They cannot reverse themselves now because unlike their traitorous, immunity bedecked leader, their necks are on the line if they fail.

There will be no righteous march to the White House, no calls for resignation from Republican quislings.

Any march or demands will come from citizens en masse who can no longer tolerate the cruelty, the abuse, the stupidity and reckless abandon of American values and history.

In the words of the traitors themselves: The Storm is Coming.

[Ping Tung]

25. Back then, there were Republiicans that hed integrity or could face political reality.

"Back then" being the operative words.

[Faux pas]

26. They all need to get a pair...

and I'm not talking about skates!

[Just Jerome]

27. May as well

try to talk a fish into running a marathon.