Posted on 08/30/2023 7:19:26 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
In the first Republican presidential debate, Nikki Haley got in a pretty effective jab at Vivek Ramaswamy, the tech tyro who was informing the American people of his strange views on world affairs: “You have no foreign-policy experience, and it shows.” Never mind that Haley’s foreign-policy experience as Donald Trump’s mouthpiece at the United Nations hardly makes her Henry Kissinger. She’s right about Ramaswamy. His erratic suggestions for selling out Ukraine and Taiwan as part of some Risk-style geopolitical maneuver have now been revealed as reflecting a factually undernourished version of U.S. foreign policy that the candidate explained in a manifesto at The American Conservative.
It’s no surprise that Ramaswamy brands his proposed “doctrine” as president with the MAGA (and pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist) battle cry of “America First.” It also figures that he’d trace his hostility to “entangling alliances” back to George Washington, who famously warned against such invitations to the dominant European powers of his era to send wooden warships across the Atlantic (a relatively low threat today). I’d also give the boy wonder credit for touting the Monroe Doctrine as providing a loophole by which even enemies of U.S. troop deployments in Europe or Asia can nonetheless rattle sabers at Mexico.
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Nixon was an anti-communist in the 50’s. That’s why they hated him and set out to destroy him.
Correct. Ramaswamy talks endlessly about defending the homeland and returning our military from far away lands. His policies do that through a combination of foreign and domestic policies that reduce our interest and dependence on foreign nations.
It looks like ChicagoConservative27 has found all the leftist hit pieces for the day. If we look at Nixon through the prism of what we know about the media today, he was not a crook, but he was a patsy for a determined ruling bureaucracy and uniparty that has not even changed many players since his departure. Death seems to be the only party they haven’t overcome.
“Nixon was liberal??? What the heck???”
EPA started in 1970 along with half a dozen economy-killers in that time frame...all signed into law by Nixon.
I agree although a different method was used.
See, that sounds like he was conservative, yet other people here are saying Nixon was liberal.
His domestic agenda was not the greatest, but his foreign policy was great.
After all, the Vulcans have a saying: “Ony Nixon could have gone to China.”
“See, that sounds like he was conservative, yet other people here are saying Nixon was liberal.”
Probably because he was both. After all, he overthrew the Communists in Chile, so that’s a plus. But his legislative track record is horrendous...as opposed to Reagan who was conservative at virtually opportunity.
Nixon ended the Viet Nam war, and opened diplomatic relations with China.
That was fine until Clinton opened economic relations - within 10 years American manufacturing was on its death bed.
Nixon and Trump were the two most socially and fiscally liberal presidents the GOP has fielded in modern times.
Odd how the Left hates them both with a fervor.
Democrats needed to destroy Nixon.
The whole Watergate thing was a global warming class hoax. Nixon was railroaded over garbage just like Trump. Compared to the arch criminal Biden, Nixon was a choir boy. That was the time in our history when the democrats of yore began in earnest to transition to the filth they are today.
Years ago in a TV interview, I heard Arnold Schwarzenegger saying the same thing. When he came to the U.S., he heard Nixon on television and liked what he was hearing. He found himself agreeing with a lot of what he said, and that’s how he became (nominally) a Republican.
Nixon was one of the last of the successful “Me Too” Republican politicians”! What do I mean by “Me Too”. The public wanted “FDR Socialism” and still does to some extent. “FDR Socialism” means the “wise government” intervenes into the economy & if necessary private lives to bring about utopia - i.e. “good socialism” like social security. “Me Too” Republicans argue they can do it cheaper, better, etc. foolish argument but it keeps them in the political game. No Republican was going to be successful running on a ticket that “FDR Socialism” needed to be dismantled. Even if in the long run, it needed to be! Ask Barry Goldwater how that worked out when he just hinted, he was against some aspects of “FDR socialism”! There are plenty of supporters of “good socialism” on this site. The public wanted the EPA, latter the public wanted “federalized” education. The public wanted Bad consequences of such decisions come much later, by then almost all the people who thought it was a good idea are gone!
So, let’s not fault Nixon for being a product of the political times. He did the best he could given the forces against him.
The MSM and DC narrative describe Nixon as cynical and Machiavellian, but Nixon was quite the opposite - the man was actually extremely naive and gentle to the ways of Washington and national politics, and had blind faith in Washington to manage large progressive institutions properly and fairly.
As time has passed, I have had second thoughts about Nixon.
He was not the 17 horned monster the libs and the hippies and the Helen Reddy types reported him to be. Several music careers were built upon that rhetoric. I didn’t see most of it as being nothing more than rhetoric or biased propaganda at the time. Nixon was mostly good for the economy.
Can you recommend a book it two dealing with this
Even Nixon didn’t love Nixon.
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