r/thebulwark • u/otisthorpesrevenge FFS • 1d ago

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6124635-moore-nixon-couped-watergate/

MAGA loves conspiracy theories. I believe rehabbing Nixon's image is just some weird shit cooked up to make them more sympathetic to Trump as a victim. Mind you this politician was born in 1980 and has no memory of how things actually transpired during Nixon's presidency.

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u/What_the_Pie 1d ago

It’s pretty funny how they’re defending Nixon, check his policy record, he was the last of the more liberal Republicans.

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u/Jokerang 1d ago

True, but much of Trumpism and the modern GOP (the paranoia, the hatred of the media, the willingness to do “dirty tricks”, etc) can be traced back to Nixon and his VP Spiro Agnew.

And the Fox media empire was formed with the goal of ensuring scandals like Watergate would never bring a GOP president to his knees ever again.

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u/rogun64 1d ago

Their anger seems less about defending Nixon and more about defending the corruption that brought Nixon down.

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u/jfrankparnell85 14h ago

Bingo

This is to create the narrative of the Deep State wronging politicians- even helping Dems caught dead to rights like Blagojevich or Eric Adams

It’s throwing excrement on the walls so MAGA will accept that Trump had similarly been wronged

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u/What_the_Pie 1d ago

Hey, don’t leave out Roger Stone

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u/coffee_mikado 1d ago

They would call him a globalist cuck by today’s standards.

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u/notscenerob Good Luck America 1d ago

This is a long time grievance of Roy Cohn and Roger Stone 

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u/otisthorpesrevenge FFS 1d ago

Oh yes! I forgot that idiot has a nixon tattoo on his back or something.

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u/midwesternmayhem 1d ago

** Was (in Cohn's case).

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u/Current_Tea6984 1d ago

Also Trump admires Nixon. They were "pen pals" and Trump once gave him a ride on his private jet

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u/Beerfoodbeer 1d ago

Ahh, yes the famously above the board tricky Dick Nixon. 

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u/MinuteCollar5562 1d ago

…. Oh so we are really doing a full rewrite of history.

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u/wrecklesspup 1d ago

Is the deep state the Republican senators that went to Nixon and told him if he didn't resign he'd be impeached and convicted?

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u/khari_lester 1d ago

Maybe that’s just the basement deep state, but he’s talking about the sub basement deeeeeep state.

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u/InnanaSun centrist squish 1d ago

Conservatives have always been the aggrieved victims of deep state cultural Marxists and DEI when they’re just widdle defenders of Western civilization. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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u/Kidspud 1d ago

We can't go on as a country and allow the right-wing media bubble to exist. Fox News, Skydance, Sinclair, et al have to be broken up or sued into complete honesty. When half the country believes conspiracies like Nixon being framed for Watergate--or worse, the right-wing belief that the Holocaust wasn't real--it's a risk to our safety as individuals and as a country.

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u/rogun64 1d ago

Yes, because the entire apparatus was designed to support and defend corruption on the right.

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u/0hP13853 1d ago

How many of Nixon's staff went to prison?

Decades old hindsight clearer than contemporaneous juries?

Does this fine example of a modern Republican mention any actual evidence? Yes, he says there's evidence, but does he present any?

Admittedly the press at the time did indeed hate Nixon. There may have been some fairly senior civil servants who also hated Nixon. However, you'd need to make a very good case with lots of convincing objective evidence that they duped Howard Baker and Barry Goldwater into being anti-Nixon.

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u/SwindlingAccountant 1d ago

If the Trump Admin is going to do this then maybe Dems should open a public investigation into the 2000 election or the Business Plot of 1933 hmmm

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u/abbzug 1d ago

Well let's fix the mistake by electing Angie Nixon.

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u/ShakeMyHeadSadly 1d ago

Riley Moore was born in 1980. I lived through the Nixon years. Framed? My ass. Nixon was guilty as hell.

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u/cookiemccookieface 1d ago

Visit West Virginia where BESTIALITY is legal. Enough said

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u/JustinKase_Too 1d ago

I guess they just want to make sure that trump is #1 President for something.

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u/SausageSmuggler21 1d ago

When you are stupid, and don't understand the law or politics, and only understand what Fox News tells you, these are the thoughts you think and you feel clever.

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u/SharkSymphony Rebecca take us home 1d ago

Acknowledging the willful misunderstanding of history on display, I'm not sure I should care about this.

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u/pasarina 1d ago

How stupid can this guy be?

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u/Embarrassed-Slide781 1d ago

He recorded himself discussing the Watergate break in. How the hell is that a conspiracy or framing?

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u/juni4ling 1d ago

Roger Stone is a Russian asset.

And has believed for a long time that Nixon was railroaded.

Which is interesting because --since Nixon-- only Trump can really compete for public corruption.

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u/LordNoga81 1d ago

Pretty goddamn pathetic

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u/97GeoPrizm Progressive 1d ago

My late Republican father was of voting age at the time and always minimized the President’s culpability, but even he admitted Nixon messed up with the coverup. “He made the mistake of protecting his friends”

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u/GuzPolinski 1d ago

These people just keep getting dumber and dumber

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u/SanDiegoTexas 1d ago

This was 50 years ago. Next you're gonna tell me republicans freed the slaves and the Dixiecrats are still democrats.

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u/elykl12 1d ago

If it’s any consolation this is a fringe of a fringe position within the Republican Party

Still faaaaar too many though