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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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Even Noam Chomsky called Nixon a liberal president.
Cal, I have only unkind words for you.
Cal Thomas is a bigtime NeverTrumper.
“...and Trump is unable to overcome his narcissistic personality.
If he can, how might it work? Trump should stop referring to Biden as a “crook.” Stick to the issues people care about – the open border and what is happening as a result, inflation (he can compare prices when he was president and now), wars, school choice, defunding universities that tolerated antisemitic demonstrations on their campuses, revising the tax code to make it fairer and flatter so everyone has skin in the game, and how the $34 trillion national debt cannot be sustained.”
Now that is a very, very strange statement to make, since everytime I hear Trump speak, and it is often, he always, always, majors on those exact points. It only takes a few seconds to label Biden the crook that he is.
I use to like Cal Thomas, but he was a never-Trumper in 2016 and still has not been cured enough to be honest.
Trump is the TOTAL OPPOSITE of Nixon!
I calBS!
Hadn’t heard from him in years. I thought he was dead.
Ah no, Nixon removed the dollar from a gold standard, monkeyed with price fixing on oil, and fed the USA to China. NOT a conservative.
No thanks Cal. Keep your ideas to yourself.
Me too. I’m surprised he’s still alive and drivelling.
And just how does this alleged narcissistic personality trait manifest as undesirable presidential characteristics?
Was that trait not given four years to blossom in all its negative aspects?
It seems to me that the greatest “negativity” of that is that the Left endlessly swoons about how detestable PDJT supposedly is. It seems to me the Left is vacuously emotional about PDJT. They’re not able to logically quantify very much that would offset the very palpable, excellent policy decisions he made while in office.
PDJT continues on the path of policies that would be so much better than everything the Left has been putting in place in 11 of the last 15 years!
Ive been watching some old Nixon interviews on YouTube from his post-presidency career. He comes off as fairly likable and friendly. Watergate was a Deep state hit job against an incredibly popular president.
Nixon was too liberal for my tastes but he was still very intelligent man and could be likable enough on television when he wanted.
Compared to what Trump is being subjected to, Nixon was a wuss.
This is a myth that the narrative-driven drive-by-media needs to keep on life-support.
Trump is no Nixon. Nixon expanded the size and scope of the federal government.
They wanted Nixon’s scalp ever since he worked for HUAC.
In the 2020 debates Trump kept bringing up Hunter Biden. It should have been a big issue, but it wasn’t. This time, he’d better concentrate on the issues — and prepare for the debates.
Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) a liberal Republican, remarked that under President Nixon, “the conservatives get the rhetoric, but the liberals get the action.” Under President Trump, the conservatives get both the rhetoric and the action.
“This time, he’d better concentrate on the issues — and prepare for the debates.”
I watched the debate with Biden. Trump could not get a point across without Chris Wallace stepping on his words.
And, as you parrot the same nonsense, Trump concentrates on the issues extensively. How can he say that Biden is a crook for a 90 minute speech?
Are people like you born with your head up your ass? Just because people accuse Trump of not dealing with the issues doesn’t mean that Trump does not deal with the issues. He deals with issues only.
Yep, it didn’t matter that Nixon was doing everything they wanted. But it did matter that he did not have the built in Conservative support to continue on.
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