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James Trout's avatar

Pre President Nixon was hardly seen as a "totally corrupt, immoral goon" by the majority of Americans though. It took Watergate to get that through most people's skulls.

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Tigercourse's avatar

I didn't say he was seen that way, just that he was. Huge percentages of people in this country think Trump is basically a god who has never done anything wrong in his life, ever.

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Oh, also, the Republican candidate expertly played on cultural animus to deliver a big "fuck you" to the social progresses the country had been making. Though this was certainly more dramatic in '68.

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