I’ve always believed it was Nixon’s persistence and role in Hiss being taken down that made him the target the left and communists would never stop trying to destroy.
I agree completely. I think that is a large part of it.
Yeo. Nixon’s Hiss prosecution proved that Democrat governments really were riddled with active communist agents. I see this as an early attempt to take on the Deep State at a high level connected directly to Roosevelt (Yalta) and Truman (UN). The media and Left spent decades punishing Nixon for this and pretending Hiss was innocent.