Analysis: The GOP impeachment wall – why Republicans won't walk away from President Trump.
"I've never seen anything like it," Cohen said."The Republican Party today is not loyal to principles as such, but loyal to the person of Donald Trump. He is really a cult figure. Nixon was not a cult figure. With Nixon, you didn't feel the personal loyalty to the man, but to the party."As the political landscape cleaved in the past 40 years, so did the way voters get information about politics and the trust they put in it.
The vast majority of Americans — 69 percent — said in 1974 that they trusted the media to report the news"fully, accurately and fairly,"The collapse is driven largely by Republicans. Today, just 15 percent of Republicans say they generally trust the mainstream media, compared with 69 percent of Democrats.
But Nixon biographer John Farrell noted the mainstream press had a more positive view of Nixon that the famed story of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's hard-nosed reporting often obscures.
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