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In reply to the discussion: This is the largest movement to remove a president I have seen in my life time. [View all]FakeNoose
(39,968 posts)I guess that's what we'd call the people who supported the Vietnam War in the face of every known fact about how terrible and destructive that war was. Nixon still had all those people voting for him because they believed it was "unpatriotic" and "disloyal" not to support your President during a war - any war.
I never admired or supported Nixon - ever - but in retrospect of 50 years I can grudgingly see a few things now that I couldn't see then. He had a law degree, experience in the Senate (also friends in the Senate) and those are things Chump never had. Nixon had intelligence and street smarts, and he did his homework - as all Presidents have done, until Chump.
Nixon did have the support of crazy lunatics - the people who believed "my country, right or wrong." They were around then, and they've multiplied now because of Faux News. Nixon knew how to play to those RWNJs and he was cadgy about it, just as Chump is now. Even AFTER Nixon resigned and got the hell out of Washington, some people were still saying he was "framed" or "railroaded" or whatever. That was insane!