I have never understood the media and far left’s absolute hatred of Nixon. I simply can’t explain it.
I was a conservative and didn’t care for Nixon because he was fairly liberal in most ways.
About the only things which make sense are he was indeed anti-communist and was effective against them in his early days. Maybe it was just their chance to get even. Also it could have just been that he was a Republican and someone they could take their vengeance on.
still can’t completely comprehend that pure hatred.
Nixon was a Quaker - that may have done it, LOL.
Nixon was a real setback for Communism - it’s taken all these years to get Obama elected...
I agree. Considering the terrible legislation he signed (EPA,OSHA, and paving the way for federal affirmative action programs,etc.) he should be a hero of modern liberalism. But it was indeed his early anti-Communist work (specifically nailing Alger Hiss, still the icon of American Communists) that forever made Nixon a must-destroy liberal target.
It's very simple actually.
In 1972, McGovern won Massachusetts and DC. Nixon won everywhere else.
There is nothing that liberals hate more than being insignificant.
It was because of Nixon's aggressive efforts, while in Congress, as a member of the HUAC (House Unamerican Activities Committee) to expose Alger Hiss as a communist mole and spy (which he was)...
I think it was because Nixon wasn't "one of them". They were/are Ivy League, from the rich left wing. Nixon came from poverty, and was educated in all the "wrong" places, Whittier College and Duke law school. So common, don't you know. Nixon also clawed his way up from nothing -- sometimes by playing things pretty close to the vest. It figures, since he financed his first politcal run in California, so it is said, from poker winnings in the Navy.