As Safire put it in his Political Dictionary, “gate” is merely a “device to provide a sinister label” to something. The gate is already out of the gate. In the end, the truth emerged into the light, and President Nixon descended into infamy. Rachel Maddow of MSNBC suggested Tuesday night that it might be bigger than Watergate, bigger than anything. And Watergate is now a script, with lines such as “what did the president know and when did he know it,” as much as it is history.

Source: Washington Post February 15, 2017 11:57 UTC