[hinckley buzzard]

FWIW, Nixon earned the enmity of the left wingers for life when he beat a communist sympathizing Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, way back when. I have a Herblock cartoon from the early fifties smearing Nixon with a totally unwarranted characterization (Herbert Block, a total unethical psychopathic asshole, plagiarized himself and used the exact same cartoon on Newt Gingrich decades later.)

The fact is, Nixon was absolutely targeted by the left wing from the git go. He was not paranoid in that sense. That was cold reality. The outcome of his presidency, ironically, is a validation of his grip on a malignant reality most Americans have shuddered to avoid.

[Publius]

Not congresswoman. Senator. She was running for re-election in 1950.