'What Democrats Can Learn From the Forgotten Impeachment of James Buchanan'

[Amy L.]

'- The process doesn’t have to take down a president to do damage to his party'

The history lesson is less interesting, but the comparison of current history-making with an interpretation of history is good...

(Love the quote from Buchanan, “Nothing but perjury can sully my name.”)

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2...ory-087506

"It’s the same question that Republicans confronted in 1860 [-] when they launched a sweeping investigation into James Buchanan, a Democratic president who they believed had undermined democratic norms and institutions, betrayed his Constitutional oath to uphold the sanctity of free elections and kept an administration that was rife with corruption at all levels."