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Journalists have been successfully waging war against Republican politicians for many decades.

But now it has become so obvious and so one-sided that it is a little embarrassing. Time to run a story saying, “Journalists didn’t destroy Nixon, you know. Everyone says we did, but it just wasn’t really like that ... And we didn’t try to ruin Trump either. Even though he is literally Hitler.”

The press hated Nixon dating back to when he defeated Helen Gahagan Douglas — the first female Democrat ever elected to Congress from California — in her re-election attempt in 1950. Ms. Douglas was an actress, and Nixon accused her of being a pinko, although he didn't quite use that word.

They were out to get him from that point on. He didn't make it that hard for them once he had been President for four years.

Dean set up Watergate. Nixon knew nothing about it, but he tried to cover it up.

You don’t think the anti-Nixonians had an agenda, Now do you? When Nixon defeated the Red Communist congressman, Jerry Voorhis, then representing the California 12th district in 1946, he moved into the target range of the CIO union goons.

In 1950, Nixon ran against Democrat incumbent Senator from California, Helen Gahagan Douglas, whom Nixon described as “pink (Communist sympathizer) right down to her underwear.”

This further sharpened the antagonism against Nixon, as the claim that Nixon had not “played fair” began to take hold in the imaginations of some. This did not diminish in the least when Dwight Eisenhower named Nixon his running mate in 1952, and swept into office after 20 years of the Democrat Presidencies.

Now most people know the rest of Nixon’s history, from the Kennedy capture of the presidency in 1960, and Nixon’s return in 1968, after LBJ’s spectacular crash and burn.

From that point on, Nixon was the ONLY target of the seething “liberal” progressives that have somehow never been put to rout since they came into power about the time of Teddy Roosevelt, and first occupied a niche within the Republican party. During and after the Great Depression, the Progressives pretended to be “Republicans”, but once the Second World War was over, they flocked en masse to the Democrat party, and for a while, assured the continued control of the Democrat delegation by progressive forces, forcing many of the old-line Southern Democrats (”Dixiecrats”) out altogether. A very few became Republican, like Strom Thurmond, but most simply retired, to be replaced by “New South” Republicans, much more attuned to Nixonian policies and free market economy.