Posted on 09/06/2023 6:14:13 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
With former President Donald Trump now facing four indictments, one recalls Lloyd Bentsen’s famous remark that Dan Quayle was no Jack Kennedy. The appropriate parallel today is to say that Donald Trump is no Richard Nixon.
The Trump-Nixon comparisons are facile but superficial and in crucial respects wrong. They ignore fundamental differences between a serious and accomplished public servant whose overwrought ambition led him astray, and a self-centered dilettante whose main interest in government service is to feed his boundless ego.
The contrasts between the two men are far more significant than the similarities.
Confronted with clear indications that his administration’s illegalities would support impeachment, Nixon resigned the presidency to avoid the personal ordeal and to spare the country excruciating divisions. His acknowledgement that he had failed the American people reflected deep remorse.
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Viewing this country through the historical prism of Nixon and now Biden is a damning indictment of the “system” from a human and political viewpoint. Trump has been used by God to reveal human corruption at a cosmic level for anyone who has eyes to see. We must make no mistake in realizing it’s going to take transformation to defeat it. Beginning with each of us.
He’s right, but not in the way he thinks. Nixon was a rhino gloablist Wilsonian, Trump is a Jacksonian America First Conservative.
“a self-centered dilettante whose main interest in government service is to feed his boundless ego”.
Fits Teh Halfrican a lot better than it does Trump. Did Trump fill the White House with pictures of himself, for example?
Nixon: “a serious and accomplished public servant...” The writer makes it sound like a lifetime of feeding at the taxpayer’s trough is somehow superior to making a living in a free-market economy. And he, of course, ignores the fact that Nixon was despised by all ‘right-thinking people’ when he exposed Communists in the State Department.
Oddly, Trump was widely admired until he committed the mortal sin of taking on the deep state. As the “serious and accomplished public servant” Chuck Schumer warned him.
Not going to work, its too late. We can only hope to save large chuncks of the former USA.
Different generations, different problems.
“Nixon’s crime was beating McGovern in a nationwide landslide.”
McGovern was a fairly easygoing far left technocrat, but his followers were extremist monsters. The Clintons were among them. They ran Nixon and didn’t even blink.
That started the Weather Underground takeover of the Democratic Party.
They never went away.
Nixon came up because of his legal strategy in challenging the Hawaii election result in 1960 that went to Kennedy. Nixon's lawyers told the Republican slate of electors to the Electoral College to meet and vote on the designated date (Dec 6?) so that they can have an Electoral College slate ready to go in the case that Nixon's challenge was successful.
Trump's lawyers were advising Republican electors in the contested states to do the same in order to maintain their viability as Electors in the event that a court heard their challenge. The liberal extremist DAs are trying to negate this strategy and deem these electors as fraudulent imposters posing as official electors.
-PJ
Donald Trump is one of the greatest presidents in US history. FU leftists.
There was a need to get over the idea that there should be such a thing as “getting your turn” when it came to elections. Hillary never seemed to get over that idea.
Hmmmm ... Opening relations with China, starting the Environmental Protection Agency, and falling for the "Arms Control" trick come to mind ...
So liberals should love Nixon, then.
Yet they hated his guts even more than they hate Trump. The sort of bilious vitriolic hate they spew(ed) at Nixon, Reagan, and Trump was much less common or socially acceptable in 1972 than it is today.
Also, don't forget: the FR groupthink today is to hate Bush (either one). The democrat called George W. Bush "Hitler" long before they ever considered throwing that epithet at Trump. FReepers who hate on Bush (either one) sound an awful lot like the democrats of the early 1990s or early 2000s.
The reason they hated Nixon was HUAC.
For all his liberalism to which I object, Richard Nixon was anti-communist.
“For all his liberalism to which I object, Richard Nixon was anti-communist.”
And yet, didn’t he cozy up to the ChiComs? I seem to recall reading something about that. Of course, it could have just been anti-GOP propaganda.
It was the "China Card" against the Soviets.
Please read post #52.
Yeah, that about covers it. He was no “good guy”. Another Deep Stater.
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