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Sure, Nixon was smart, but he was also a liberal. He gaves us affirmative action, the EPA, wage + price controls, etc. Tom Wicker, NY Times decades long columnist published "Nixon: One of Us" in 1991, meaning that Nixon was a liberal. This would be comparable to Paul Krugman writing a book on George W. Bush in 2026 that Dubya was really one of us.

The Libertarian Party was founded in 1971, when Nixon imposed wage + price controls, which was a sure sign of impending tyranny.

The only thing that was different about Nixon from your standard big government liberal, was that he was an anti-communist.

This would be comparable to Paul Krugman writing a book on George W. Bush in 2026 that Dubya was really one of us.

He was.

George W. Bush was a Republican on the Nixonian model.

W gave us Medicare Drug program

W gave us government paid mortgage down payments.

W gave us the Too Big to Fail bank bailout.

W was a Big Government Republican like Nixon.

Tom Wicker, NY Times decades long columnist published "Nixon: One of Us" in 1991, meaning that Nixon was a liberal. This would be comparable to Paul Krugman writing a book on George W. Bush in 2026 that Dubya was really one of us.

Maybe, but I think the title meant more that Nixon was representative of the America of his day:

The title of my book is One of Us, and the publisher, for example, was puzzled by that -- a lot of people have been. But I maintain that Richard Nixon is one of us because I think in all of our character there's good and there's bad, and depending on circumstance, depending on events, depending on pressures, the good dominates or the bad dominates -- not necessarily all the time, but as things happen. I think Richard Nixon is one of us in that sense, that sometimes the well-known dark side of his character has dominated and sometimes what Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature" have dominated.
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When people get older they may realize that they share an outlook and a common human nature with contemporaries that they disliked and disagreed with in earlier days.