Richard Nixon was the first Republican to call out the Democratic bias in the media. They had been trying to crucify him since he began his political career in the 40s and finally succeeded with Watergate.
Nixon was one of our finest anti-communist warriors. In the 1940s, when he was serving on HUAC, he named Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, Hiss sued him for defamation, and then Nixon produced the evidence and got Hiss imprisoned for perjury (the statute of limitations having run out on espionage charges). The media never forgave Nixon for being right and putting communists in prison. He called the media out as enemies of America long before anyone else did.
JFK stole the 1960 election from Nixon. When Nixon got his second bite at the apple, he quickly became so popular that he won what is to date the second-largest electoral college victory since WWII and the largest popular vote victory of any Republican (even exceeding Reagan, who won 50 percent in 1980 and 58 percent in 1984). The reason was simple: Nixon stopped the anarchy. All the race riots, all the antiwar riots stopped because Nixon made it clear that the violent left would be met with hot lead. When the Kent State riot happened and "students" were smashing up windows and attacking National Guardsmen, Nixon had them unload into the crowd. End result: no more riots. He then brilliantly ended the Democrats' war in Vietnam to deprive them of a talking point (much like how Trump bombed Iran into submission, then cut Israel out of the peace process).
Nixon was the last president to genuinely come from a humble background, not a silver spoon like the Bushes or a carefully stage managed phony like Clinton or Obama. His family were dirt poor California farmers who later ran a grocery store after the farm failed. Nixon was offered a scholarship to Harvard but chose to go to Whittier instead because he had to work at his father's store. He chose to enlist in the Navy in World War II even though as a Quaker, he was exempt from the draft as a consciousness objector. Even during his congressional years, he was quite a poor man; when the Democrats tried to attack him over the fund his supporters maintained to cover his office's expenses, he was forced to reveal his family's humiliating poverty in a display similar to how Brett Kavanaugh was forced to fight a false rape accusation by providing documentation that he was an incel. That display ultimately disgusted so many Americans that it carried Nixon to the vice presidency and the White House. He was an intensely private man who thought he should be judged on his actions alone, a naive assumption that ended his presidency.
If the Internet had existed in the 1970s, Watergate would have never gone anywhere. Every Democrat elected since Nixon has done far worse, outright treasonous things. I have my issues with Nixon (mainly over affirmative action and the EPA), but in this house, Richard Nixon is a hero! End of story!
“Did we really want ‘Tricky Dicks’ resignation. Or was it just something that happened after fact?”
Except from: “Ever So Faint Jingle Of Their Purse” WDR
