Back in the day there were Republicans who had integrity and courage. I know this is hard to believe given the anti-democratic tendencies of men like Mitch McConnell and William Barr, but I am not kidding.
There were men like Tom Railsback, a Congressman from Illinois, who worked with a small group of Republicans to craft articles of impeachment that would get bi-partisan support. The first article concerned Nixon’s coverup of the break-in; the second accused Nixon of abusing his authority. Six of the Judiciary Committee’s Republicans, led by Railsback, voted for those articles.
Later, of course, when the tapes surfaced and Nixon was heard plotting the coverup, all the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee agreed that Nixon had to go. Today’s Congressional Republicans would have voted not to hear the tapes.
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