“Nixon should have been a Liberal Icon.”
It SHOULD be a lesson to the GOP, but it’s not. No doubt you remember another flaming GOP Leftist, Bob Packwood, got the same treatment as Nixon - did everything he could for the Left, but they saw an opening and POUNCED.
Something in DC makes people Republicans unable to understand “The scorpion and the frog”.
It’s all about power, if you block them from power, they will find a way to get rid of you, it has nothing to do with ideology.