After watching the presidential team, talking to Nixon and the Washington Post in a row, I inadvertently formed a perfect closed loop.
The president's team started from the Watergate incident, telling that two reporters from the Washington Post only tried to pursue the truth and even risked their lives to unravel the inside story of the Watergate incident, which eventually led to Nixon becoming the only president in American history to resign. It also organized an increasingly powerful executive power, strengthened the restrictive power of the parliament, and once again strengthened the balanced relationship of the separation of powers.
The dialogue with Nixon was after Nixon had resigned, and his successor, President Ford, pardoned Nixon. Nixon was self-exiled to a private island in California because he insisted that he was not at fault in the Watergate scandal. At the same time, the British talk show host raised his own funds and got the opportunity to interview Nixon - a total of 4 parts, each part of 2 hours, respectively, from foreign affairs, internal affairs, Nixon and the Watergate incident. After the first three parts had no explosive effect, through Nixon's phone call (or the host's self-hypnosis and thus fabricated dialogue), he found the target, and finally forced Nixon to admit his fault through strong questioning and detailed investigation in the last part: Nixon did not think wiretapping was illegal or violated the Constitution. But the host asked: What about the people? Nixon said, sorry, I let them down. (Of course, it may also be that Nixon is superior, and he planned to apologize through an exclusive interview.) But in the end, and with Nixon's harrowing memoir, the American people finally came out of their anger and could give it a fair shot.
The Washington Post, which happened two films before, was about the Washington Post resisting pressure and resolutely continuing to publish the leaked documents — even if they themselves might offend, after the New York Post was banned from publication by an executive order for reporting on the Pentagon’s leaked documents. Under the espionage law, the Post leader can also be held in contempt of court by the court. Other newspapers also reprinted it on the front page as a show of support. Ultimately, in this contest of freedom of speech versus government, the Supreme Court sided with the Washington Post 6-3 in favor of free speech, and justice Black said in its opinion: the Founding Fathers gave the free press, the protection it must have, to fulfil its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.
Freedom of speech, no matter where it is, no matter what era, is precious. However, now, in a country where a lawyer will be administratively punished for commenting on "Vladivostok", it is still the United States where Trump is banned from Facebook and Twitter. These values, which countless people defended with their lives just half a century ago, no longer exist.
In 2016, just one weekend away from the US election, Hillary Clinton had held a party in Philadelphia to wish her victory - which is also in line with the polls that have been unanimous. On the other hand, Trump needs to visit four or five places in the rust belt every day, and they are all small places, such as Sadarsky in Ohio, and continue to speak and canvass votes until the final counterattack.
At least at that moment, when Trump flew to various swing states to canvass votes, I think he was with the people, at least not like the arrogant white-left Hillary Clinton, who celebrated in advance by holding the mouthpiece of public opinion. And in the last presidential debate, Hillary said I want to build a government of the people, and Trump retorted, I want to build not only a government of the people, but a government for the people ( government for the people). From that point on, I knew Trump was going to win.
20 years after the polls were counted until the first late night, Trump had been leading by a large margin, even Ohio announced Trump's victory, and other swing states were also leading by a large margin, only a few hours later, each did not. The announced week instantly turned from red to blue. The official explanation is that the increased Democratic ballots are all in the form of mail, and there will be a delay in counting the votes.
Later, Trump tweeted, calling on supporters to march in Congress, but it was suddenly declared to be inciting riots, and even the President’s social account was banned, losing the opportunity to defend himself.
In order to escape the British oppression, the founding fathers established the government for the people, of the people and by the people through the constitution. Now, where is this promised land?
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