alt Hacker NewsDid he? It felt to me like he let us all get over re-litigating Watergate. The country had real problems. Nixon was gone and it was time to move on.
Not saying it wasn't a miscarriage of justice. Rather, that "justice" is, to me, just one part of making a good world.
Nixon-ism went on to form a truly despicable Republican party, but I think that would have happened whether Ford pardoned him or not. In fact I think pardoning him was the best chance to put that "win politics at all costs" mentality behind us. Turns out that didn't work out, but prosecuting Nixon wouldn't have made it any better.
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"Time to move on" is used only when someone in power is guilty. Happened with Nixon. Mitch McConnell basically said the same thing about Trump after J6 insurrection. And I think Garland believed the same thing when he did not move fast enough to investigate Trump. People believe in law and order when rich and powerful face the same consequences as the common man for their crimes committed and not when they are let off the hook.
The US has many such instances unfortunately.
We should have litigated it then. Nixon should have died in prison. It would have been a good precedent to set