GOP Dirty Tricks

Republican President Dick Nixon sent burglars to break into an office at The Watergate.
GOP President Don Trump Is using his managers to break The Post Office.
Are they the same dirty tricks using different strokes by similar blokes?
The term bloke was used in the late 19th century, meaning a stupid crook and a worthless person. This sense may originate with the Dutch blok, a fool, which is where the word blockhead came from.