On DailyKos we do a fair amount of calling Trump a traitor, and referring to his doings with Putin’s Russians as treasonous.
But DID YOU KNOW?!?
This would not be the first election that turned on Republican treason.
As a matter of fact, on the eve of the 1968 election, Johnson had a peace deal on the table that would certainly have put Hubert Humphrey in the White House.
Nixon scuttled it:
The story of Richard Nixon’s surreptitious contacts with the South Vietnamese government is quite well-known: fearful that a last-second peace deal would give Hubert Humphrey the election, Nixon agents—chiefly Anna Chennault—reached out to the South Vietnamese government of Nguyen van Thieu. The message: a peace settlement under a Nixon presidency would be more favorable to the South Vietnamese. The Paris peace talks may very well have collapsed without this Nixonian intervention, but South Vietnamese resistance ensured the doom of the negotiations. While it remains unclear whether Nixon personally directed the Chennault diplomacy, he clearly was aware of it by late October 1968, and seems to have done nothing to repudiate Chennault's toxic message.
Five years later, Nixon agreed to substantially same terms as were on the table in 1968. So Nixon effectively extended the Vietnam War for five years, at the cost of thousands of lives, for no other reason than to win the presidency.
This is a piece of history that every Democrat should be able to recall at any time. But for some reason, well-documented though it is, it seems like this history is not well known on the left.
So that’s why I wrote this diary. It’s not like they would never do it -- they’ve done it before.