Unfortunately though, Nixon;s 1972 Electoral blowout did nothing to impede liberalisn. The liberals of today reached their formative years about the time of the 1972 landside.
Not surprising, since Nixon himself was very liberal on a host of issues. He created the EPA, OSHA, and the CPSC, instituted wage and price controls, was instrumental in making affirmative action mandatory, on and on.
That election was a blowout for a liberal. Nixon was a Republican Liberal with. His Keynesianism began the inflation the flowered so beautifully under Carter who had no notion wo what was needed to fix it. But there was a silver lining. Nixon's economic idiocy ultimately gave us Reagan and the destruction of the Evil Empire as well as a return to sane economic policies for the first time sinc JFK.