[Pearls Before Swine]

I know it's old news but .. it seems relevant?

It shows Nixon was a visionary, only understood by Democrats. /S

[Ben Ficklin]

"It shows Nixon was visionary"

Nixon was very much of a visionary, he created the modern republican party.

While Nixon was prez, the group that would become known as NeoConservatives would leave the dem party to become republicans. They were then led by Irving Kristol, who passed the NeoCon throne down to his son, Bill Kristol.

Nixon also implemented his Southern Strategy, which became GOP policy to bring the Cultural Populists out of the dem party into the GOP.

The NeoCons and rightwing populists are very powerful in the modern GOP