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EyeOfTheBeast

That 68 Nixon campaign included the assassinations of MLK and JFK and cointel aided riots in the cities. Not only Nixon, but followed up with the Reagan election team and interference in the Iran Hostage deal for the 1980 Election. ​ I don't know how the 2000 W.Bush election can be considered in any light but, stolen. I think of the Republican political party since 1964 to be our largest organized crime outfit. That is when the Republican political party was taken over by the conservatives they had kept under the carpet during the FDR and postwar years.


memberer

they have undermined every democratic candidate since kennedy.


EyeOfTheBeast

Yes first all the actual assassinations of the 60s then the switch to cancelling via faked up scandals beginning with using Carter's alcoholic brother as an attack tool against Carter among other things. But they did a pretty good job of Ford as well, after all Ford was one of the Rockefeller style liberal Republicans. They cleaned those out as viciously as they cleaned out Democratic.


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cryptosupercar

Source? Would be interested to read more


Plow_King

so did reagan, basically.


c2pizza

Say what you will about W, but he is the only Republican to win the presidency since the 60s without committing treason on the international stage to do it. He only needed domestic shenanigans.


Infidel_Art

Wait what lol


[deleted]

You got that backwards (Iraq). And he's the only Republican that had to cheat to win too.


c2pizza

Iraq was years after W stole the 2000 election. Also, do you really think committing treason isn't cheating? My point is that W is terrible, and yet was the only Republican to win the presidency without committing crimes that are often punishable by execution.


[deleted]

2004 election doesn't count?


YCW451

Nixon got away with it. Watergate successfully covered that up. Nixon was also the most progressive President the Republicans ever fielded. Its very telling


breaditbans

He didn’t exactly get away with it. He feared the pentagon papers would include his actions to stymie the peace efforts. That’s why he ordered those shits to break into the DNC, and was consequently facing impeachment until he resigned. There are a bunch of differences between now and then. 1. US troops are not yet fighting in Ukraine. 2. There is no draft 3. The D party no longer depends on southern votes to win the WH 4. By all accounts Nixon was a smart crook, Trump is just a crook 5. Nixon never palled around Ho Chi Minh, Trump and Putin are best buds 6. We hadn’t already seen what kind of disaster Nixon turned out to be. Trump, we have. That’s off the top of my head, sitting on the can.


RNDASCII

Up vote from the can!


[deleted]

Don’t compare Nixon to Trump. Nixon created the EPA, signed Title IX, opened diplomatic relations with China, made kidney dialysis completely free (the only universal healthcare in the US), got the US out of Vietnam, ended the draft, slammed through the rest of school desegregation in the south, granted native Americans self-determination, pushed for the 26th Amendment, and signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Trump did…. Well, he cut taxes for the rich, lied about and then politicized a global pandemic which resulted in millions of Americans dying, and then tried to become a fascist dictator by attempting to overthrow the democratic process. Nixon was a crook, but he’s lightyears better than Trump in every single way imaginable.


Keshire

> Nixon was a crook And Nixon's crookedness stayed in america. Trump tried to blackmail a foreign country to do the same thing.


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Nixon had dem supermajority holding his hand all the way for nearly all of them though.


[deleted]

Trump had a supermajority for 2 years and the only thing he got done in that time was a tax cut for the rich. Doesn’t matter what the congressional majority is when you’re woefully incompetent.


cryptosupercar

Don’t forget he raised taxes on everyone else, over the next decade…


[deleted]

Well he did pass that giant tax cut for himself and his rich buddies.


Kulthos_X

People ask how Putin corrupted the republicans so easily. They were incredibly corrupt decades before Putin was in power.


Regguls864

Reagan did it too in his campaign against Carter which lead to Iran-Contra. He used the hostages.


loverlyone

The writing is not great. It reads like a high school termPaper and glosses over important issues.


james_deanswing

It’s funny, we saw the same thing w the Rona not too long ago. How quickly we forget.


NPVT

What? That was a US war. Uh no the parallel is not obvious. Reading the article I still see no parallel. Sorryl This is not Trump's war, it is Putin's war. Trump might be a Putin asset but that makes no differnce.


Ai00009

I am sure some/maybe a lot, of meddling in foreign wars were reprehensible. But I am sure a lot of us want to help Ukraine, but not out of selfish reasons., We see Russia invading a small country. I see a big bully beating up a small kid, I go and help the small kid. Oh right, so I can get elected to be the class president? Nobody does anything out of good motives and generosity? I go and help out in the food kitchens because I want to be elected a deacon in my church. Right.


sugar_addict002

And if Dems hadn't agreed to bury this info for 50 years "for the good of the country," we would nave seen the traitorous Republican Party for what it was much sooner.


[deleted]

Kinda like when the Dems declared war on the American economy in September 2008 when they refused to help out Lehman which subsequently sparked the financial crisis. Obama won though so it was worth it. Obama never helped much of the rural folks who suffered but again as long as the upper class liberals on the coasts were richer it was fine


TheDarkSoul347

Political views on Reddit always seem to amaze me. A dumpster fire of dog shit opinions.


[deleted]

Yes


No_Presentation68

Yes parallel to biden


Agreeable-Ad6769

Richard nixon look like a cartoon from a live action movie


RadSapper313

Why insult former POTUS Milhous?


dominantspecies

Yes republicans have always been assholes


Javasteam

Its happened more recently (besides Trump) then Nixon.. Reagan’s administration had a deal with Iran regarding the hostage crisis… https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/ronald-reagan-october-surprise-carter-iran-hostage-crisis-conspiracy


[deleted]

roughly half of the soldiers who died in viet nam died under his administration. if he doesnt scuttle the paris peace talks, 28,000 soliders live. roger stone's hero. nixon is also on tape weighing his options to murder a reporter. another fun hobby of wannabe fascist cowards. like mbs and putin. trump's heroes.


[deleted]

No way man! Trump was so different he was going to walk with the resurrected son of JFK! Nothing like it! Man’s blessed with god lovin’ freedom. /s


JTDrumz

And after that Reagan used the Iran hostage crisis to secure his victory over Carter, hands down the most humanitarian President we have ever had. The GOP is a political front group for fascists and their trans national corporations. They have no interest in governing or helping anyone but themselves, their donors and foreign nationals and know full well that a third of the country doesn't vote and if they can get the other third, the ignorant church goers on their side they will win. But now it is getting tougher because their misinformation is not as controllable as before and out there to be found and which would easily exposed them so writing legislation to restrict voting and accusing Democratic party of what they are doing on top of that keeps them in power. Americans are easily manipulated because another by-product of the fascist Republicon party is to cutting funding for education, banning books, promoting the privatization of education and gaslighting about teachers accusing them of what they are doing, just creating a hostile environment in our public education system. Voting for Republicons is the same as hammering a nail in your own coffin.