afaict even Nixon wasn’t this bad
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I’m talking specifically Trump’s role in the mess vs Nixon’s
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my dad was alive during Nixon
he says the chaos of the last 4 years doesn’t begin to approach late 1960s chaos
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The winter of 1968 seemed quite dark and gloomy.
Election year
Nixon
Vietnam/ draft
MLK and RFK assassinated
RFK was on his way to win the democratic primary when he was killed
Riots in Chicago
cnn.com/videos/bestoft
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2 yo then. But: Nixon wd have survived impeachment until smoking gun tape: he had pretty broad support. Several thousand (not typo) domestic bombings from ~1968-1972. No 'Net then, so public less aware AFAICT. Scanlan's Monthly suppressed when it tried to report on this.
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Both are more signs of corrosion than causes.
Cheeto was made possible by the continuance of the rot that made Dicky possible. As men, Nixon was less execrable.
Hard to tease apart persons and times, and this episode isn't over yet. Will take generations to clean up.








