I don't think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to bake it...
Posted on 05/31/2023 12:09:29 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Among both his friends and his enemies, there is a tendency to think of Donald Trump as sui generis: a political figure, and certainly a president, unlike any other. In some respects, including his incessant mendacity and his tendency to publicly insult everyone who doesn’t bow down to him, he may truly be without equal in U.S. history and more comparable to foreign political strongmen from Juan Perón to Viktor Orban.
But at the New York Times, Ross Barkan suggests that as Trump pursues a comeback after his 2020 defeat (which, of course, he will not acknowledge), he may actually resemble a highly controversial 20th-century predecessor: Richard Nixon. The 37th president, like the 45th, survived periodic dismissal as a loser (Nixon narrowly lost the 1960 presidential contest to John F. Kennedy and then was upset two years later in a bid for the California governorship). And when Nixon made his comeback in 1968, he faced intraparty competition from both the left and the right, as well as from large-state governors just as formidable as today’s Trump rival Ron DeSantis. Barkan writes:
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
Trump is the new Trump
Well if you are counting Presidents who were taken out by the deep state, I’d add Nixon AND JFK.
Nixon?! The guy who created the EPA, took us off the gold standard and initiated America’s destruction by getting us into bed with the Chinese?!
Trump is far more comparable to Teddy Roosevelt than Nixon - but I understand you want to go for the cheap shots.
I was about to say Teddy Roosevelt also. Was he not loud and boastful also?
Didn’t they tell us Trump was the second coming of Hilter? :-/
This second coming of Nixon noise sounds like they’re starting to warm up to him! :-\
Bidet is the new LBJ in many respects (except LBJ had a brain).
Really, Ed? Viktor Orban??!!
Dumb@$$.
I don't think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to bake it...
God, help us. Another example of mental masturbation.
Anyone with common sense can see that Trump is chip from the block of great presidents, of great leaders.
He’s different from all of them but similar to some as well.
You will never convince me that Biden won the 2020 election. You will never do that.
EVery article has a disclaimer in it.
The democrats pulled it off. We can’t prove it, but Biden winning is not possible.
I don't like the sound of 'ese 'ere 'Boncentration Bamps'.
Kind of a weird mash-up of Nixon and Clinton, yes, as far as the negative aspects go
But Nixon at the time the most qualified person for the office, having been a senator and vice-president etc. and highly intelligent, and kind of a moderate
It’s also kind of Nixon’s fault with the “southern strategy” that brought in all the white southern rural dixiecrats into the Republican party which has caused the schism we have today, they would call him a RINO today
Yeah, LBJ had a brain but no soul. What brain he had was almost as twisted as Joe’s except that Joe’s doesn’t function
such leftist propaganda. How is victor orban a strongman? because he resists globohomo and open borders. The deep state and mockingbird media say that makes him bad
Well both did have an election STOLEN from them.
But any similarity ends there.
Nixon pretended to be the gracious loser UNTIL the 62 governor’s race when he realized that NOBODY votes for gracious losers, they vote for fighters.
Is Biden the new Nixon?
The Left also successfully convinced folks that Vietnam was all Nixon’s fault, it’s as if Kennedy and LBJ never existed.
Nixon WAS Deep State, and his epa is is still killing us.
Nixon was almost a leftist.
Nixon should have been a Liberal icon. But they wanted his scalp since he served on HUAC.
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