Tag: nixonland

The Apotheosis of Nixonism

By Dan Nexon

In democracy

On February 23, 2020

We really are living through Nixon redux. Except with an idiot playing the part of Nixon and a totally plaint congress. The Trump White House and its allies, over the past 18 months, assembled detailed lists of disloyal government officials to oust — and trusted pro-Trump people to replace them — according to more than […]

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Where even Richard Nixon has got soul

By Paul Campos

On August 16, 2010

This little vignette is interesting for a number of reasons. First, it’s almost certainly false (among the many quite incredible details my favorite is the writer’s claim that he had never

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Abortions for some . . .

By Paul Campos

On September 10, 2008

. . . miniature American flags for everyone!

Palinland

By Paul Campos

In Uncategorized

On August 31, 2008

I’m currently reading Nixonland, Rick Perlstein’s brilliant cultural history of the United States through the lens of the rise and fall and rise again of Richard Nixon (I don’t know yet if he gets to the final fall). Perlstein documents how Nixon invented and refined a particularly effective politics of resentment — a kind of […]

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Nixon’s Piano

By Scott Lemieux

On July 17, 2008

Jesse and David say most of what needs to be said about Bruce Bartlett’s op-ed, but it’s worth saying more about one specific point. The central problem with Bartlett’s argument is i

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Future Presidential Statement of the Day

By Scott Lemieux

On June 12, 2008

[Nixon would] top just short of calling the President a liar on Vietnam, then add that he would not be speaking of the war during Johnson’s “sensitive negotiations with Hanoi” before

Nixonland

By Scott Lemieux

In Uncategorized

On May 13, 2008

I finally picked up my copy of Rick Perlstein’s new book, which I’ve been looking forward to for a while. I was also happy to see it get the front-page slot in the Times book review, although it might have been preferable for the gig to go to someone other than skin care consultant Rowena […]

MikeEss …I’m sensing a touch of 1968, with the second coming of Nixon in the form of T***p…which honestly is somewhat of an insult to Nixon. At least Nixon could do more than just grift for himself…
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