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Curious about Nixon

This was a tad before my time, but when Nixon resigned, the vast majority of the USA agreed with that decision and felt that Nixon had done something seriously wrong. Am I correct? Were there many folks in subsequent years who felt Nixon had been wronged? But we all knew Nixon was involved in the break-in.

I remember when Clinton was impeached my dad telling me he thought Clinton should resign. In my mind being untruthful about an extramarital affair is much different than orchestrating a political break-in. As I remember afterwards, most Democrats and some Republicans felt the affair was minor. The republicans who thought this was a major offense had issues with Clinton before that. But we all knew that Clinton had an affair and it looked bad upon him and the office of the president.

But I don't understand Trump. It's like his supporters are in complete denial. Sure there are some who think Trump is a scoundrel and still support him, but it seems like most completely deny that he did anything wrong. I simply don't see how anyone in a right mind would think Trump did nothing wrong or did nothing that made him look bad or disgraced the office of the presidency. With Nixon and Clinton, I think most of the country agreed they did something wrong. The difference was that whether one felt the action justified removal from office. Frankly, I am shocked that 75-80% of the USA can't agree that Trump is a slimy, crooked man. I wouldn't have so much of an issue if his supporters admitted to that and still supported him in spite of that. But they don't. Instead they live in a completely different reality. And it's not just 20% of the country - it's probably 35-40%. If we can't agree on basic reality, we are doomed.
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The difference is that America didn't have right-wing media like it does now. From 1949 to 1987 we had the Fairness Doctrine, which required news media to have representatives of multiples sides debate the issues. There were still far-right lunatic pundits similar to Tucker Carlson, but they were required to bring on people that disagreed with them. This meant that right-wing arguments were dismantled on right-wing shows. After 1987, right-wing media was able to get consistently more insane with no push back. There's also the internet and social media now which creates pipelines into far-right circles. This is why so many Libertarians end up becoming literal Neo-Nazis.
Reason10 · 70-79, M
@BohemianBabe @BohemianBabe In other words, for you FAIR is allowing ONLY left wing lying Woke goose stepping left wing NAZI fake news sources.

The Fairness Doctrine was an attack on the First Amendment.

The free market has decided that FoxNews is the top source for news and information, probably because it gives BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE equal time.

And goose steppers like you do not like that.
@Reason10
left wing lying Woke goose stepping left wing NAZI fake news sources.

That's a lot of buzzwords.