• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    He was actually a pretty good president too. Unfortunately the seeds of the cancer that is the current Republican party has been sown by the Nixon administration before he was elected and had begun to bear fruit when Reagan ran against him.

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      4 months ago

      I like to say he was the best man ever to be President and that he had great policies, but that he was not an effective President.

      He was too honest to play the game.

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      Yeah, the Republican party had a strong progressive wing before Nixon. Lincoln, Teddy, and Eisenhower were all progressives by modern standards.