Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
hunh. I never thought of Nixon as being remotely a Democrat in actions. What did he do that makes you say that?

But Trump, sure, he is unmoored philosophically. He can go anywhere tilting at anything that seems opportunistic.
Nixon compiled a record of economic interference that Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren would be proud of. There was a significant expansion of entitlement programs on his watch. He implemented wage and price controls. He grew the regulatory state across the board. He floated proposals for universal health care and universal basic income. He commenced our decades-long delusion that Communist China was something other than a committed enemy.

Just because he crushed George McGovern so badly in ‘72, people seem to think he was some sort of arch-conservative. He was no such thing.