>media portrays him as some crazy ultra conservative >look into his policies >he's actually really moderate and pushed forward many bipartisan policies What did he do to get boomers and gen xers to hate him so much?
>>17274744The media had a bone to pick with Nixon since before he even ran for president in 1960. That's the only reason he's so reviled.
>>17274744If anything, he didn't go too far enough when it came to ridiculous unpopular new world order decisions that worked. Open Cuba. Tell Ted to suck it and sign the healthcare bill. Cut off the tumor in '73 and start Afghanistan early. Strangle India. Fully invest in public television way further than before. If you're going to be the guy with the Jew list you may as well make the world a way better place.
>>17274867Watergate was basically like the chance they had to finally nail him where they felt "vindicated" for having hounded him for all those years before. The worst part of this is that if they had just not told Nixon about it such that he didn't need to help cover it up then he could have gotten away with it. It isn't like he ordered it.
>>17275022Nixon really didn't have much mandate to govern.>1968>wins only 43% of the popular vote due to the Democrat Party's implosion>Democrats remain in control of both houses of Congress his entire presidency>Nixon's 49 state landslide in '72 is essentially hollow due to above reason--no Congressional control means his authority is just about limited to foreign policy
>>17275076>not understanding what a Dixiecrat isThe South voted solidly Democrat on the local level until 1994 when Newt Gringrich released his "Contract with America" as a standardized congressional platform the Republicans were going to run on nationwide, which was apparently enough to get Southerners to finally consider voting for Republican candidates locally.
>>17275085Be that as it may, Nixon twice tried to appoint a Southerner to the Supreme Court but the Senate refused to confirm them.
>>17275085It voted Democratic enough for majorities on the local level until 2010. Now, it should be clear that these are Manchin Zell Miller type Democrats, but at least they believed in education and social services. If Kerry won and Edwards came back in 2012 I think the South would still be solidly swing.Also it's not that hard to win white people if you actually fight for them.
Nixon just had the bad luck of being the First President to break the "illusion" of The USA system being sacred without any corruption in the Mass Media era Practically everyone after him did worse stuff but people had digested the fact by then
>>17275093By the time Kerry was running the Democrat Party was already done in the South.
Truth be told the 1920 and '28 elections involved the Republican presidential candidates making inroads into the South and it probably would have begun sooner had the Depression not intervened.
>>17274744That perception is from the Nixon tapes and how he talked personallyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfVnBmpMm8
Nonetheless most of us would agree that starting the EPA and ATF was a criminally stupid mistake on his part.
The liberal establishment had basically had it out for him since the Alger Hiss hearings.
>>17275126The Alcohol and Tabaco isn't bad, it is just adding firearms to the mix turned what should have been a public health agency into a swat team.
>>17275091Nonetheless he did begin the shift of the USSC back to the right after the era of mid-century liberalism and the Court has been dominated principally by Republican-appointed justices since.
>>17275135>>17275126everyone knew that early on. in 1979 Congress cut the ATF's budget and forbade them to keep computerized records. as such they have to keep a mountain of paper documents in file cabinets.
>>17275108Not really. 63/42 Dem majority Alabama, 107/72 Georgia, 81/38 Mississippi, and that's in 2004. Factor in that some of those Republicans are suburban types that only care about rape and tax cuts and you have a very moderate capitol other than on social issues. While South Carolina is an exception to that, it's also a world renowned shithole.
>>17275137>Warren Court bad because they took a proactive line on free speech and civil rightsbrainletwojak.gif
>>17275108didn't help that he was a New Englander who absolutely did not sell down there in the slightest and the liberal media establishment was committed to attacking Southerners every chance they got
The last gasp of the Democrat Party in the South was the Clinton years but even then...>the states Clinton carried were mainly ones that had a large urban center like Louisiana and Georgia>most Democrat voters were over the age of 45 with young people being mostly Republicans
>>17275172Clinton is weird in hindsight, the whole "first black president" shit would get brutalised by both sides
it should be stated that Nixon was committed to the idea that the South should be considered part of the country instead of a weird pariah region as it had been since the Civil War. so to that end he tried unsuccessfully to appoint two Southerners to the Supreme Court.
>>17274744>"the bohemian goove..."
>Nixon visited Atlanta on August 26, 1960 as part of his 50 state campaign strategy. He remarked during the visit that no Democrat presidential candidate had bothered visiting Georgia since 1932.[9]
>Installs 3 liberal yahoos and tries to make it up with Rehnquist.
>>17275236The media ridiculed his campaign strategy in '60 for wasting time visiting unwinnable states (>LOL Massachusetts) but it was at least an interesting idea since after all the president is supposed to be the leader of the entire country not just 3 swing states.
>>17275296Massachusetts probably wasn't seen as that out of reach for a Republican presidential candiate at that time since Nixon's own running mate was a former MA Senator and the state then had a currently serving Republican Senator and would continue to do so until 1979. New England on the whole has only been a Democrat mono-party region since the 90s.
>>17275309>New England on the whole has only been a Democrat mono-party region since the 90swhat basically finished the Republican Party in New England was when they started focusing primarily on the South since the 80s-90s and surprise, the South and New England are diametric opposite regions culturally and in their mentality
>>17275319George H.W. Bush was the last Republican presidential candidate to carry anything in NE because he was a native son of the region and that brand of polite Yankee WASP that doesn't exactly exist anymore.
>>17274867There were cultural issues because the Nixons grew up rather poor (Pat especially) and were detested by the trust fund Georgetown University crowd for it.
>>17275076RN's domestic legislation proposals (and he had quite a few of them) were rejected by Congress repeatedly.
>>17275056>if they had just not told Nixon about itThe whole point was getting him into trouble, if they hadn't planned on telling him (and most likely everyone else) they wouldn't have gone through with it at all.
>>17275020meds
>>17274744>What did he do to get boomers and gen xers to hate him so much?Vietnam...
>>17275076He and George H.W. Bush are the only presidents who had an opposition Congress their entire presidency.
The liberal media establishment basically vented on Nixon all the pent-up anger they had over crude redneck LBJ but couldn't really say it as the latter was a Democrat.
>>17275334His son carried New Hampshire in 2000. And Trump won one of Maine's electoral votes in 2016, 2020, and 2024.
>>17274744>What did he do to get boomers and gen xers to hate him so much?being a mccarthite when he started his political career. That was pretty much all it took
>>17275126why?
>>17275534Why was starting the ATF a bad idea? Why was starting the ATF a bad idea!?
>>17274744Watergate, dude.
>>17275566Watergate was a witch hunt created by the same people that were calling him a fascist dictator that was going to destroy the world
>>17275566Ratfucking the '68 Paris Peace Talks pisses me off more tbqh
>>17274744>he's actually really moderate because he signed off on a bunch of bullshit bills to pull the wool over his oppositions eyes and so completely destroyed "the left" of the '70's that they've been taking L's all the way to the present year As much as I hate this nigger for stealing my boy Johnson's spotlight, I have mad respect for the way he played the game
>>17275209>"Indian women..."
>>17275126>most of us would agree that starting the EPA and ATF was a criminally stupid mistake on his part.Criminal Negligence>>17275547>Why was starting the ATF a bad idea!?Starting a Criminal organisation - may as well have started a Crime MOB, or hired a russian Agent & given him Top Secret clearence.ATF is a Criminal, murderous Organization.piss all over fed laws and the Constitution.!
>>17275875>boy Johnson's spotlight, I have mad respect for the way he played the gameLBJ was a POS!murderous Bastard1 of 3 people that ordered assasination of JFKStarted Vietnam war - faked the 'Tonkin Gulf incident'Murdered his way through PoliticsSleazeball..
