Posted on 05/28/2024 1:13:09 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Fifty-six years ago in August 1968, Richard Nixon achieved what The New York Times called “the greatest reversal of fortune in American political history.” Times columnist James Reston went further, calling it “the greatest comeback since Lazarus.” This from a newspaper, along with The Washington Post, that hated Nixon, as they now hate Donald Trump.
How did he do it and could presumptive Republican presidential nominee and former president Trump learn anything from Nixon’s seeming transformation?
First, the parallels between Nixon and Trump are striking. Nixon, like Trump, believed America was in bad shape. In 1968, crime, the war in Vietnam and the murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy had shocked and depressed the country. The Democratic National Convention would follow the GOP convention at the end of August. It featured riots in the streets that shocked voters watching on TV. Many argued those riots helped Nixon win the presidency. Some of those issues, especially crime and social unrest, prevail today. Nixon was a national figure longer than Donald Trump, but Nixon was seen as dour, uncomfortable around others, and possessing a personality that conveyed awkwardness and insincerity.
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Talk about a waste of time: a guy who viscerally hates Trump presumes to give him advice on how to proceed in the upcoming election?
There’s a reason for shelf-life. Thomas made some sense in another era; not any more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl84ilI8Do&t=1212s
Above is a video of Nixon at the Oxford Student Union in 1978. An hour long but really good. He spends about 5 minutes giving a short speech and the rest is answering questions from the students.
The loud protestors outside the venue make it hard to hear the questions sometimes, but Nixon is unphased by it. Reminds me a bit of Trump speaking at the Libertarian Convention where he didn’t let the booing get to him. Although Trump DID have a teleprompter.
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Adding you to the list of scumbags who aren't worth engaging in any way.
Cal Thomas has been pro-life a long time. That does not mean he is right about everything. GWB was supposedly pro-life.
“Adding you to the list of scumbags who aren’t worth engaging in any way.”
I am so crushed and scarred.
Nixon was a dedicated patriot and determined Cold Warrior. Like Trump, he was not a doctrinaire conservative. Compared to Barry Goldwater, Chomsky might have seen him as liberal, but that would have only been relative.
Cal Thomas was one of the conflicted evangelicals, just couldn’t seem to reconcile his beliefs with the real world of politics. I say “was” because I haven’t heard from him in years, didn’t know he was still alive.
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