TomC
Bless Your Heart!
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Pretty much this.I do not think Nixon was stupid at all. Stupid people don’t get offered full scholarships to Harvard, as NIxon did but had to turn down because of family obligations. Stupid people don’t receive, as Nixon did, a full scholarship to Duke University Law School.
Nixon’s problem was not lack of intelligence, but lack of character.
Nixon was no moron. He was a politician who used to prevailing bigotry to acquire power.
Skillfully.
Guts and smarts. Then he helped the US to get over our dumbassery concerning China. Made things better for everyone.
Still, his beliefs in the power of the POTUS and misuse of it caused his downfall.
It took another fifty years for an ex-President to break through that glass ceiling and confidently run on a platform of "the law doesn't apply to people like me".
But here we are. Trump has successfully found a way to convince a bunch of Americans that laws don't apply to people like him. Enough to make his presidential campaign viable.
We patriots think he should have been executed in 2022. Unfortunately, the Biden- Harris team dropped the ball and Trump is not swinging from a noose or in a sub-basement of Gitmo.
He's still trying to lie to enough Americans to stay out of jail.
Tom