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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter@swolecialism.bsky.social |
In a lot of ways the entire Republican establishment since the 70s has been dedicated to making sure that what happened to Nixon would never be allowed to happen to one of theirs again
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ariel gordon
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While also weaponizing the idea of fighting corruption to undermine every Democratic president that came after. It's deeply cynically and obviously a means of acquiring power rather than a sincere belief, and the fact that that has not been stated plainly over the years is a massive failure.
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@peripatetic.bsky.social
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I think Roger Ailes was explicit abut that, wrt why he started Fox News.
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Don Dechert
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Jeremy Morong
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Nixon and Robert Bork.
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Huichilobos
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it is an underrated part of why they spent decades so mad about bork, imo.
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Paula Morgan
@squirrelygirl.bsky.social
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🎶"I've grown tired of livin' Nixon's mess.🎶
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They are so unmistakably the baddies
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Chris Parker
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Just as Nixon made sure that the GOP would never be bettered in the dirty tricks dept again after Chicago 1960
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Mark Shatraw
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I don't know if it's real or apocryphal but supposedly this was the exact intent of Roger Ailes and Fox News
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Andrew Bloomberg
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One of my main takeaways from the Perlstein books is that the most important guy who grasped this immediately was Reagan
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Micah
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yep it’s really a fitting coda to the whole American experiment
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Jason Wilson
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Sure feels like the GOP is about a fit about Nixon and Bork.
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