Poor Nixon. Always forgotten in the shitty modern president era.
Poor Nixon. Always forgotten in the shitty modern president era.
Agree with all that, but:
He absolutely was the start of the bad shit.
I'd argue it started with Nixon, who laid much of the foundation of democracy-dismantling. Couple examples are: casting Latinos and Blacks as troublemakers, etc, having the FBI spy on and go after them. Using drug use as a lever for that, especially in terms of throwing people in prison. Probably the beginning or precursor to the for-profit prison industry, another huge scam. Making healthcare in to a corporate affair.
In general I'd say trying to slam back down on the Civil Rights and progressive advances of the Sixties. Also, some of his friends and cronies starting up the FOX propaganda project in the early 70's, which has been utterly devastating over the long run.
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He absolutely was the start of the bad shit. Student loans were outrageous. He pretended AIDS was not happening. He started the dismantling of social programs. It was a pretty bad time. This was the point when the GOP turned for the worse forever more and they started nominating puppets as presidential candidates since they were able to easily manipulate Reagan.
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