>2 years later the most popular president in history resigns Literally how
>>18121404Television was very powerful back then. Basically remember the January 6 special committee which didn't prevent Trump from winning? Back in the 70's that shit worked like a charm.
>>18121419This. Boomers were super susceptible to libtards on TV.Boomers basically tried to Nixon trump and failed epically because he doesn’t give af unlike Nixon + the January 6th Nuremberg shit was engineered for boomer cable not the internet.
>>18121428It doesn't help there was a verified covert political op perpetrated partly by him. Unlike in the other given scenario. This was probably the first such scandal in the television era. Perhaps in the Nations history.
>>18121508Crossfire Hurricane was much worse
>>18121404If the internet as it exists now existed then, Watergate would've been deboonked
>>18121419>January 6 special committee which didn't prevent Trump from winning?because Americans are actual retards who haven't got an attention span longer than 30 seconds anymore. if they did and actually listened to the evidence it would be clear how dangerous and deluded trump and his supporters really are.>Dissemination of False Fraud Claims: Trump purposely spread false allegations of widespread election fraud starting on election night to undermine the results, solicit donations, and incite supporters, leading to the January 6 violence.Refusal to Concede: Despite legal losses and advice from aides, Trump rejected the election outcome and instead schemed to subvert it, violating his constitutional obligations.Pressure on Pence: Trump knowingly pushed Vice President Mike Pence to illegally block the certification of electoral votes on January 6, despite no legal basis for such action.
Nixon was never that popular. He won by gigantic margins because of the total collapse of the Democrat's previously unstoppable New Deal Coalition because of the Vietnam issue.
>>18121519DOJ Corruption Attempt: Trump tried to co-opt the Department of Justice by demanding false fraud declarations and offering a loyalist (Jeffrey Clark) the acting attorney general role to propagate lies.State-Level Pressure: Without evidence, Trump urged state officials and legislators in battleground states to reverse certified results in his favor.Fake Electors Scheme: Trump directed efforts to create and submit fraudulent slates of electors from multiple states to Congress and the National Archives.Congressional Obstruction: Trump lobbied House and Senate members to reject legitimate electors from key states during the certification.False Court Filings: Trump endorsed knowingly deceptive affidavits and filings in federal lawsuits to support his fraud narrative.Rally and March Incitement: Trump called supporters to Washington on January 6 based on his "stolen election" lies, urged them to march on the Capitol to "fight like hell," and ignored warnings about armed attendees.2:24 p.m. Tweet: Amid the unfolding violence, Trump's tweet attacking Pence was intended to escalate the mob's fury, as he watched the attack on TV.Failure to Intervene: For 187 minutes, Trump resisted pleas to direct rioters to leave, instead prolonging the assault and delaying the electoral count.Overall Conspiracy: These actions formed a coordinated plot by Trump and allies to nullify the election, justifying potential criminal prosecution.
>>18121519>>18121524Trump won 3 times in a row :)
>>18121520Knowing that Boomers hated him, what generation actually liked him? I think he's decent but I don't think there's been a mass consensus per any generation.
>>18121527The only cause which Nixon was considered a standard-bearer of throughout his career was anti-Communism which of course was a very broad movement itself. He had no real base, he was just a mainstrean Republican who exploited the Red Scare to climb up the ladder. Reagan and Rockefeller led the opposing conservative and liberal factions in the Republican party and both opposed Nixon getting the nomination in '68, he only got it because they failed to work together to block him.
>>18121519>because Americans are actual retards who haven't got an attention span longer than 30 seconds anymore.This is a big downside of tech. There is no popular forum for major present or historic events. Its all over the place all the time all at once.
>>18121550If anything we are closer now to the days where local biased newspapers dominated people's news perception. Universal news sources were an aberration.
>>18121542Weirdly enough he was a very green president. Which of course makes me actually rather like him since his admin’s actions are why for example our rivers don’t catch on fire anymore and the bald eagle isn't extinct.
>>18121520>be Democratic Party>essentially rule America as a de facto one-party state for 30 years>it completely collapses within the span of five because of some meme war in Southeast Asia and the Civil Rights ActUnironically why? How could they let their near-total stranglehold on American politics just slip through their fingers like that? It's like if the Nazis had just casually let the Enabling Act expire and then be immediately voted out of power or something.
>>18121780It was bound to happen. The "college wing" was already emerging when the New Deal coalition began. The splintering was inevitable.
>>18121780>one-party state for 30 years>who's Eisenhower
>>18121404he was careless with his morality and character
>>18121803Eisenhower was not the first choice for the Republicans and only won because of his wartime popularity. He made a lot of concessions to the Democrats and essentially governed as a non-partisan that just happened to be endorsed by the GOP. In practice, the Democrats continued to wield all institutional power (they still do to this very day).
>>18121992>the Democrats continued to wield all institutional power (they still do to this very day).is this 1966? that era of a total Democrat monopoly on power started coming to an end in the Reagan years.
>>18121527>Knowing that Boomers hated himThis is false btw, Nixon got most of the youth vote in '72 by ending the draft. The perception that boomers were universally anti-Nixon was because the ones who were tended to have more influence in arts/academia/the media.
the DNC self-destructed in 68 and Nixon got under 50% of the popular vote. Throughout his administration the opposition party continued to control Congress, which happened only for one other president, George H.W. Bush. It may be stated that his 72 landslide was illusory since Democrats not only held the House and Senate, but gained a few governorships. A lot of mainstream Democrats including union workers voted for Nixon as a protest vote but continued to vote Democrat on downballot races.
>>18121428>>18121555they were a product of the mass government centralization which FDR caused. that started to break down with the removal of the Fairness Doctrine in the late 80s.
Every Democrat administration going back to Wilson, outside maybe Truman and Carter did Watergate 10x over.
>>18121997The Democrats still held control of Congress until the mid 90s, and to this day they are overwhelmingly overrepresented in the judiciary, academia and media. Reagan having to back down from nominating Bork despite his massive popularity and Bush 41 nominating Souter as an overcorrection while Clinton got to nominate whatever partisan hacks he wanted just goes to show how much politics in post-1929 America is played on easy mode if you have a (D) next to your name.
>>18122050>and to this day they are overwhelmingly overrepresented in the judiciaryThe Supreme Court started shifting back to the right under Nixon in fact since 1970 it has been majority Republican-appointed justices. Further nearly all of the important jurisprudence since that time has come from right-leaning justices with most of the liberal ones being unimportant affirmative action picks.
>>18121992the 50s was definitely a more conservative era than the 30s-40s. the political trend away from the extreme leftism of the New Deal era began shortly after the war with the Republican sweep of Congress in 46. although Democrats regained Congress in two years it was a more moderate coalition headed by staunch anti-communists.
>>18121992Ike was in fact very much a classic small town Republican of the early XX century.
>>18122058and now they're set to gut the Voting Rights Act
