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The Real Reason MAGA-World Is Trying to Rehabilitate Nixon
nymag ^ | 12/30/2023 | Ed Kilgore

Posted on 01/03/2024 7:19:05 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

In the years between Richard Nixon’s resignation as president in 1974 and his death in 1994, there was plenty of time for reconsiderations of his career, his crimes, and his legacy. Biographers often focused on his complicated character and his inner demons. As Republicans turned to the more politically palatable but also more reactionary Reagan style of conservatism, Democrats often noted that Nixon wasn’t all bad when it came to domestic policy; he signed the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, appointed the Supreme Court justice who wrote Roe v. Wade, and even committed the supreme conservative ideological heresy of imposing wage and price controls. Even more often, admirers from various backgrounds dwelled on what Nixon himself cared most about: his foreign-policy work, most notably détente with the Soviet Union and his “opening” to China.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: maga; nixon; trump; world
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To: Seruzawa

like the welfare state...which is not a war on poverty, but a war on productivity which creates more poverty, thus generating more funds to....make war on poverty.

but can you elaborate?

have MKULTRA methods been knowingly put into the psychological academy or training, such that MKULTRA is basically out there, on autopilot?

Is that what some people say about antidepressants? and other meds? I’d love to hear some elaboration.

(and yes, all of these Lone Nut assassins were in some sort of psychiatric care, and otherwise associated with known CIA programs....all of them).


41 posted on 01/03/2024 11:27:12 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: Jim W N
”Steal confidential documents”?

You really don’t know what Watergate was all about, do you?

And no, he didn’t “steal some tapes” either.

He was accused of covering up a break in by people working for people working for him. Exactly the same thing JFK and LBJ did.

42 posted on 01/03/2024 11:51:04 AM PST by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Wpin

Destroying the Dollar, aiding China’s rise, Globalist foriegn policies, expanding and enlarging the Great Society. John Scmidtz in 172!


43 posted on 01/03/2024 12:07:43 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Wpin

1972


44 posted on 01/03/2024 12:10:27 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Chainmail

Trump is NOTHING like Nixon. Trump is America First, Nixon wad a globalist.


45 posted on 01/03/2024 12:11:37 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: ConservativeDude

The black box warnings on psych drugs state that the drugs cause homicidal and suicidal ideation. It’s no surprise that the rise of these insane incidents parallels the rampant increase in drugged citizens in the past 50 years. Add the drug hypnosis and ECT (which hides the memory of the hypnotic suggestions) and voila... senseless mass murders.

There is quite a bit of data on MK on the net. I’ve pieced together a lot of it. But I don’t have a convenient link to explain it.


46 posted on 01/03/2024 12:51:54 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: cowboyusa
"Nixon wad a globalist."

Oh, wad he?

47 posted on 01/03/2024 1:02:34 PM PST by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Chainmail

😂 Yes, he started the sell out to China.


48 posted on 01/03/2024 1:47:23 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Chainmail
Well, Bubba, it’s unlikely that you lived through the same time I did.

I was in high school when Nixon resigned, so I do remember Nixon in office, but the first Presidential election I was old enough to vote in was for Reagan in 1980 (I just missed being able to vote in the 1976 election by a year).

49 posted on 01/03/2024 5:08:23 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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