Summary: That sums up the Republican litmus test these days, and it's a lie. State and federal politicians stoke the lie or at least tolerate it. Until they stop, "the system" cannot work as it once so proudly did. And our national nightmare not only persists, it threatens to get worse.
Friday is the 50th anniversary of the Watergate burglary that would end Richard M. Nixon’s presidency two years later. By then, his vice president and successor, Gerald R. Ford Jr., would tell Americans, “Our long national nightmare is over.” Little could Ford or his audience have imagined the nation’s current nightmare, one that’s far from over.