Both Nixon and Trump ran against discredited presidents who in fact had slipped so low in preference polls that they were forced to withdraw from the race. Lyndon Johnson because he had waged a hopeless war with terrible casualties and uncontrolled expenses. Between that war in Vietnam and his grandiose Great Society revolution that inflicted a host of unintended consequences upon the electorate, he planted the seeds of future inflation.
In an attempt to replicate the worst features of the Great Society and in pursuit of a green scam, Biden contributed to a debilitating inflation with mindless spending programs . His obdurate refusal to control the border, indeed by his surreptitious enticing of desperate migrants through corrupted NGOs, he earned the disapproval of the electorate that could see the invasion with their own eyes on television just as the electorate in 1968 could witness the antiwar riots on television.
Nixon resorted to two bad policies to cope with the fiscal dislocation caused by Johnson's war and Great Society. He took the dollar off the gold standard and converted the dollar into a fiat currency and he imposed fatally defective price controls which, of course, had to be abandoned. Nixon, stymied at home, turned to foreign policy and it effected a real game changer by opening a relationship with China, the consequences of which we are attempting to cope with still today even as we are confronted by inflated dollars.
Nixon was destroyed by the left who nurtured a visceral hatred of Nixon since the 1950s with his congressional campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas Douglas and his subsequent taking down of communists spy Alger Hiss. When the left hates, it hates for decades. This destruction was encompassed by a combination of players within the deep state of judge Sirica, treacherous FBI agents, the CIA and a relentless media.
Trump was hated by the left perhaps because he was an interloper into their ranks of the elite or more likely simply because he threatened to break their rice bowls. Whatever the motivation, the coordinated actions by the deep state and the left to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump and later to destroy the man himself will be studied by political scientists for generations.
Both presidents faced attacks by special counsel, a practice which has now earned the descriptive, "lawfare."
Trump through his own pluck and the outrageous conduct of the Democrats themselves, survived narrowly. Nixon did not.
Nixon's reputation was destroyed and is now slowly being rehabilitated. Trump's reputation has been restored as he has himself been vindicated by events. By the nature of things we should anticipate that revisionist historians will soon attempt to destroy Trump's place in history.
