Vice President JD Vance rolled into the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, on Thursday to promote his new book Communion—which charts his journey from based atheist to based Catholic convert—and ended up dropping some absolute red pills on the establishment's favorite historical narrative. Speaking in front of a crowd of supporters, Vance dismantled the holy grail of legacy media myths: the fall of Richard Nixon.

According to Vance, the entire Watergate hysteria wouldn't even survive a full news cycle in today's fragmented, zero-trust media environment. "If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be a 12-hour news story," Vance said, speaking truth to power. He added, "The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy." The corporate media immediately began to seethe, but Vance's point is hard to ignore—today's public simply does not buy what the gatekeepers are selling.

For decades, the beltway elites have treated Watergate as some sacred triumph of government accountability. They love to talk about how the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington by operatives tied to Nixon's re-election campaign was the ultimate sin, forcing Nixon to resign in his second term to escape impeachment. But Vance called out the real mechanics behind the curtain, exposing how unelected bureaucrats operate.

"If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it’s not all that different from what the same groups of people the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump in the first administration," Vance explained. "There is a parallel." The comparison is obvious to anyone who watched the endless, coordinated lawfare and bureaucratic leaking that defined Trump's first term in office.

Trump, of course, was impeached twice by a hyper-ventilating House of Representatives. First, they went after him for asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden's corrupt dealings, holding up military aid. Then they tried to pin the blame on him for the January 6 Capitol riot after his campaign to challenge the election results. In both cases, the establishment ran the same exact playbook they used on Nixon, but Trump held the line.

While the mainstream media still tries to keep Nixon in the permanent penalty box, Vance noted that the 37th president is actually "enjoying a bit of a renaissance" among people who appreciate real talent. He pointed to Nixon's massive foreign policy wins, including ending the Vietnam War and opening up relations with China. Vance rightly labeled Nixon a "political genius" who got targeted because he was too effective.