06-17-2024, 12:56 PM
Speedy wrote:
Yes, sure, but Nixon was an actual (unconvicted) criminal.
Trump is and was too at least for January of 2000. But I can never tell when Speedy is engaging his subtle sense of humor.
That was…the lowest time for the presidency in the last 200+ years.
Nixon certainly was a paranoid, rat-fucking criminal; but of course, politics ain’t beanbag, and we may not know the worst of the past. But of what we know, Trump certainly rivals him, I’d say.
Of course, one has to note Nixon was reelected with an EV total of 520 to 17 (! - so much for the wisdom of crowds…). And then within a few years, many/most of the top names in Nixon’s administration (including the President, the VP, and Nixon’s Attorney General) were in jail, pled guilty, or in Nixon’s case, were pardoned for their crimes.