Posted on 10/26/2022 11:09:06 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Fifty years ago this November, Nixon buried the hapless George McGovern under the third-largest landslide in the history of American presidential elections. McGovern carried only one of the 50 states, Massachusetts. The benighted American masses wouldn’t stop chanting “four more years,” to the dismay of peaceniks and intellectuals everywhere.
Five decades later, we still haven’t absorbed the reasons behind Nixon’s triumph. Few liberals grasp the sources of Nixon’s appeal, which cut across partisan lines and gave him a huge victory, even among voters who wanted out of Vietnam immediately, which was supposed to be Nixon-haters’ signature issue.
Until you get Richard Nixon, you don’t get America.
In the eyes of the left, Nixon won because he stoked mid-America’s resentments, which became their charge against Reagan and Trump as well. (Lately, channeling resentment has become the go-to explanation among liberal journalists and others when someone you disapprove of wins an election.) Trampling on our better angels, Nixon brought out the vicious, racist, sexist underside of the American psyche, at least that’s the way the story went. Ordinary racist, sexist white guys were just fed up with the Blacks, the gays, and the bra-burning women.
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“wow 50 years. I doubt we will ever see a landslide like that again.”
Actually we will if the rats keep both houses in 2 weeks. HR1 will get through and that kind of landslide will happen in 24.
McGovern didn't carry his native state of South Dakota (although his margin of defeat there was less than in most of the other states).
Nixon’s great “crime” was beating McGovern in a nationwide landslide. No one in the media voted for Nixon or knew anyone who did, so clearly he had stolen the election and had to be punished.
Trump committed the same crime by beating Hillary when everyone knew that it was “her turn” to be President. No one in the media voted for Trump or knew anyone who did, so clearly he had stolen the election and had to be punished.
Even after 12 more years of mass immigration Reagan had almost the identical result, 49 states, 525 electoral votes, and 58.8% of the vote.
In Nixon’s 1972 run against McGovern, McGovern won 46% of the under-30 vote.
The Watergate takedown of Nixon was one of the dirtiest events in American history.
If Nixon had the conservative media outlets that exist today, he wouldn’t have resigned in 1974.
Also, Trump is “Nixon’s Revenge” on steroids. Watching those old civil rights marchers from the 1960’s “eat a Trump Presidency” in 2024 is going to be.......priceless.
It’ll be revenge for Watergate as well as the Big Steal.
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