[otness_e]

Didn’t Nixon easily win reelection in 1972, not to mention win the Vietnam War and even had a Victory in Vietnam Day according to Prager U? I’m pretty sure if Americans hated him as you claim, they would have gone for McGovern, not Nixon, especially when Nixon easily beat McGovern.

And to be fair regarding the EPA, at the time, the EPA was actually needed, due to there being actual environmental damage going on (”crud” originally referred to toxic sediment within the rivers). Now, that being said, it should have been a temporary agency that got closed down once it was all clear. I can’t comment on the whole gold standard thing, though, or the wage and price controls (I’m pretty sure that predated Nixon, and in fact was present during the FDR era).

[Segovia]

are you naive or what? “Now, that being said, it should have been a temporary agency that got closed down once it was all clear.” The closest thing to eternal life on this earth is a government program! No government program, let alone agency, has ever ceased operations because they succeeded, and especially not if they fail.

[DoodleBob]

I'm not saying Americans hated Nixon in 1972. Clearly they didn't (though McGovern wasn't a great alternative). What I AM saying, is that if a Dem had imposed wage and price controls and created a runaway govt agency (I get that we "needed" the EPA, just like we "needed" DHS and the attendant erosion of privacy), we'd call him a socialist. But for some reason, probably out of a fear that they may give libs an inch, conservatives go to great lengths to defend Nixon when he was a milquetoast free marketer.