We might remember that Nixon's re-election was the biggest landslide in history, and...
it took him a year into his second term to fuck up not quite as badly as Trump has less than halfway through his first.
Nixon even had a few legislative and foreign policy successes before he went down. If he wasn't such a prick, he could have been a decent President.
And never forget that we impeached Clinton over a blowjob-- there is so much more here.
So much more.
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There were at least 3 Democrats who would have beaten Nixon in 1972, but they were all taken down by dirty tricks and/or ratfucking by the GOP. So who was Nixon's opponent? Senator Nobody from Nowhere, South Dakota. Nothing against McGovern but he was a patsy and had no chance against the incumbent President.
Besides that, NOBODY PAID ATTENTION TO THE NEWS ABOUT WATERGATE UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION. Sorry for the all-caps, but I cannot stress this enough. The Watergate break-in happened in June 1972, Woodward and Bernstein were writing the story within less than a week after it happened. The story was covered in WaPo and Newsweek magazine on a regular basis but Nixon of course denied everything. Nixon convinced people that if you believed the stories about Watergate, you must be a disloyal American. The Silent Majority - including most of our parents and most American voters - bought it!
It was the Baby Boomers who kept up the protests and wanted him out. That's why he was re-elected in a landslide. The 1972 election should have never counted because it was a travesty. Just like 2016.
