the US let an insurrection off, he should have been in a federal jail for life but you then rewarded him with the presidency… again. If there are no consequences for a bully physcopath, all you’ve done is let them know that behaviour is ok.
he said he could shoot some random and hed het away with it and he’s right
Next step will be saying hitler was an alright guy, a great painter and did nothing wrong.
Of course because this is the pressing issue of the new millennium. Everyone sitting around going man Nixon really got the short end of the stick.
This shows that they aren’t concerned about what’s coming and are just rewriting history.
It will be interesting to see how much more weird shit people will believe by 2028 if the human race makes it that long
There is a sincere and legitimate argument that the Watergate burglars deliberately took a dive to throw Nixon under the bus. He’d already pissed off both the CIA and FBI at this point, and many within his own party were turning on him due to his unpopularity.
Trump’s not the guy to make this argument, of course. But it does get into the Cold War politics of the era and Nixon’s Third Way strategy of detente for the benefit of his millionaire allies.
The Cold Warriors would eventually hijack the federal government entirely through Reagan/Bush in '80. But back in the 60s/70s there was still a meaningful divide between business goons and military maniacs.
…And he would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddlesome coconspirators.
Unironically
Nixon was the beginning of the right-wing coup against America. Roger Ailes (the Fox News aka Unofficial Propaganda Network guy) was Nixon’s media aide. Redid his image from his 1960 loss. Key to the coup.
It’s interesting that they’re choosing to rehabilitate him now. It’s a weird card to play.
If you believe, as I do, that fascist movements are more or less a forest fire, and that “grievances” are the fuel for that fire, then “rehab Nixon” is really “mine the Nixon issue for grievance fuel.”
And if they’re down to playing this card, they’re running low on fuel.
They want to portray impeached presidents as being unfairly attacked, in order to make the cult leader look less bad.
It won’t work because Dear Leader will do bad things faster than they can excuse him.
Of course he wasn’t actually impeached…
I don’t disagree Nixon was huge but I think it goes from before that.
I personally really think it started directly at the start with the creation of the political parties, something Washington foresaw but also the establishment of America by the wealthy slave owning elite made this direction inevitable. But we could argue a lot about that.
Andrew Johnson’s presidency and the assassination of Lincoln left scars that never healed and created the mould that I think the conservative base still stems from. Ever heard that quote “the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires” I really think there’s a weirdo psychic hole these people experienced without even being fully aware. A lot of them come from former slave owning rich families and that underlying knowledge they used to have wealth did something to them.
You can also look at the wannabe coup against FDR, the Business Plot, rich fucks basically wanted to overthrow FDR.
Those three things to me really set the groundwork and then marches in Allen Dulles and his CIA. In a conversation with Charles de Gaulle, JFK admitted he didn’t have control over the intelligence apparatus which was plotting to assassinate de Gaulle.
Then marches in Nixon and not soon after Reagan. The culture divide from the dawn of America, the humiliated and now destitute former slave owners with generational anger, the tycoons and their confidence to plot and peel away at democracy, a compromised intelligence apparatus with a black budget likely stemming from drug and human trafficking which they are in charge of investigating.
Suddenly the whole scene is set. The wealthy get their Epsteins, their cocaine, the means to hide it, the political pawns to support it and an ignorant, desperate base to use as their voting bloc. Gerrymandering only makes it all too easy especially with the broken representation system where smaller populations literally have more voting weight.
Government transparency, wealth distribution and strong social safety nets to reinforce education and healthcare, ranked voting, an end to gerrymandering and a heavy blow to how votes matter are, to me, the first steps to start fixing some of this shit.
I agree they’re running low on fuel. But a cornered rat and all that.
Imagine the changes if we could end gerrymandering, and make the house truly representative population wise as it was meant to be. It’s not some magic bullet that would solve everything, but it would help set the path forward.
Alas, the Senate intentionally does not provide equal representation and skews to more power for smaller states, so that would be a harder fix I think between the three.
Nixon was the beginning of the right-wing coup against America.
I read him more as the end of popular right-wing governance. Reagan (and Carter, via Volcker) began the slide into unpopular corporate politics.
Makes sense. There’s been a lot of commentary over the years that after Nixon Republicans decided that their principles could never get in the way of holding power again.
And they’re run by ghouls on life support who still care about the 70’s.
trying to erase history
Conservatives still see absolutely nothing at all wrong with Nixon’s behavior. They even glorify it in their music and their political commentary. Cheating in elections and spying on American citizens is completely fine in their eyes (as long as it’s conservatives doing it).
It’s almost like conservatives are pure evil and should be completely excluded from normal society.
Trump raped kids.
Of course he wants us talking about Nixon.
Hopefully they can get on clearing the good names of Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris next.
Wouldn’t that be a relief.
Does anyone think this is just going to end? Fascism is the future.
it started back when Rehan was elected and has just rolled down hill, now gathering even more steam. This has a long way to play out and isn’t being stopped by those advocates of the armed bears
It’s in the future, but doesn’t last.
Because of course he is
Can’t tell if this is sourced by tRump’s fear/vanity, or Peter Theil’s malice. Trump is pro-crime, but not cogent. Peter Theil is running everything.
Some real not the onion shit here.
