Post #4052665
2026-07-24 03:11 UTC
But Richard Nixon was most definitely no puppet. That was perhaps his downfall: because he was his own man he would always earn the enmity of rival Republicans of ambition. A puppet leader ameliorates this issue because then all the rivals share the bulk of the power while the leader merely appears on TV in carefully scripted and rehearsed line-deliveries from the gang of advisors and co-conspirators.
All Republican Presidents since Nixon have been figureheads. Nixon changed GOP politics forever. They decided to go for broke.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 03:15
They never forgave the Democrats and the press for humiliating Nixon and thus they aided Richard Nixon's quest to rehabilitate himself. These days Republicans feel proud of Nixon again and hold him up as a great leader. But they never liked Nixon either and he knew it. He felt like a whipped dog, taking all the heat and all the blame for the people who actually had all the power. The ghost of Richard Nixon is restless, still wide awake (on uppers of course) and still toiling away at the rehabilitation because...come ON. Do you think Dick Nixon deserves to be remembered kindly? (cont'd)