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

[David Lockmiller]

(12-20-2019 06:39 AM)Amy L. Wrote:  '- 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."

Ostensibly focused on Buchanan’s extralegal machinations to secure slavery in the new state of Kansas, the House investigation uncovered a wide range of criminality that included straw jobs, extortion of federal officeholders and the bribing of multiple congressmen.

What [Republicans] Can Learn From the Forgotten Impeachment of James Buchanan may be of some importance.