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Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin@PincherMartin8·
@realmattcloud For the same reason conservatives hated Clinton in the 1990s, despite the fact he governed more conservatively than any Democratic president could possibly have done. Partisanship trumped ideology. It often does.
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Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin@PincherMartin8·
Nixon was moderate to liberal on civil rights, liberal on government spending, and eventually became an accommodationist with the global communists (Mao, Brezhnev) for the sake of peace. So why did liberals hate Nixon so much? Because the early Nixon was probably the most effective politician in the country at using the red issue to both target his political opponents and root out genuine communists. And the left never forgave him for it.
Pincher Martin@PincherMartin8

One of the reasons the young Nixon was hated so much, and that hate endured throughout his entire political career, was because he was much more effective than McCarthy at both rooting out genuine communists and using anti-communist rhetoric to throw his political opponents off their game.

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Matt Cloud
Matt Cloud@realmattcloud·
@PincherMartin8 I see It's the Ken Burns hour with you. Gotcha. My mistake. So, on your terms, then, why was he not forgiven for the 40s given that he came around to the liberal position anyway?
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Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin@PincherMartin8·
Young voters feared what Nixon's anti-communist reputation would likely mean for the Vietnam War. That's enough to explain his lag among them in 1968. Even if Nixon was clearly signaling during the campaign that he would bring "an honorable peace" in Vietnam and end the draft, they were still leery. But Nixon's support among the young grew over those first four years in office as he 1) made steps to get rid of the draft in 1973, 2) lowered the voting age to 18, and, most importantly, 3) drew down the war. In 1972, he won nearly half of the youth vote. If Nixon's support among young voters still lagged his support with other age demographics in 1972, his style is likely to blame. He wasn't cool like the Kennedys or eloquent like Eugene McCarthy.
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Matt Cloud
Matt Cloud@realmattcloud·
@PincherMartin8 2/ protect (counterintuitively) the liberal reforms that Nixon implemented, frequently at the urging of advisors such as Moynihan and Kissinger. That's how it "follows." Thanks.
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Matt Cloud
Matt Cloud@realmattcloud·
@PincherMartin8 1/ Your point is valid but does not go far enough, and does not account for the hatred by the youth in the late 1960s and early 1970s of Nixon, who had not been around for the pumpkin papers, and it was that hatred that was used -- so I contend -- in jujitsu-like fashion to
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Matt Cloud
Matt Cloud@realmattcloud·
@PincherMartin8 "Hunt op not really to check leaks to news media but to give them out."
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The Bush Archive
The Bush Archive@TheBushArchive·
V.P George H.W Bush and Governor Bill Clinton the Bass Anglers Tournament in Pine Bluff, Arkansas 1984
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Centennial Rye
Centennial Rye@CentennialRye·
@jpodhoretz Sherman McCoy will run over the Bronx teenager 13 times, back-and-forth
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Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley@JonathanTurley·
With the expected reaffirmation of birthright citizenship by the Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara, the question is whether whether we should have a national debate on a possible new citizenship amendment... jonathanturley.org/2026/04/06/the…
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Federalist Society
Federalist Society@FedSoc·
The Federalist Society is pleased to announce “The Meese Prize for Excellence in Originalist Scholarship,” a $15,000 annual award recognizing new scholarship that makes a distinct and significant contribution to the field of originalism. The inaugural prize will be awarded to the best originalist article or book published or accepted for publication in 2025. FedSoc will announce the winner at the National Lawyers Convention in November. Just as Attorney General Meese did in 1985, we hope this prize will inspire and promote new groundbreaking originalist scholarship. Nominations are due April 15! fedsoc.org/opportunities/…
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Matt Cloud
Matt Cloud@realmattcloud·
@futurama_nerd @dnieporent @AnthonyMKreis From feudal times persons who came on the King's land who were not sworn in ligeance were regarded as enemy soldiers -- aliens at enmity as distinct from aliens in amity. This buttresses the point that legality on land was a prerequisite of jus soli.
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Anthony Michael Kreis, FRHistS
Anthony Michael Kreis, FRHistS@AnthonyMKreis·
In 1608, a judge in Calvin's Case described anyone born in England as having a "bond of faith and obedience" to the King. It was never about the parents. And it was never about anything really other than place, contrary to Wurman and Barnett. I'll beat this drum until June.
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Boris Ryvkin
Boris Ryvkin@BRyvkin·
A real life, political case of “just because you’re paranoid doesn't mean they aren’t after you.” Did he jump on and exploit anti-Communist paranoia to resuscitate his stalled and failing political career? Yes. Was there pervasive pro-Soviet Communist penetration of the U.S. government at all levels in the late 1940s and 50s? Yes, and later confirmed to be worse than what McCarthy made noise about.
History With Jacob@HistoryWJacob

What are your thoughts on Joseph McCarthy?

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Matt Cloud
Matt Cloud@realmattcloud·
@AnthonyMKreis I'm a graduate of UCL, dipshit. With an English ex-wife and an English-U.S. son.
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