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Louis, and no one was ever held accountable for the Reagan cheat or Iran-Contra. So many Americans think Nixon's problem was just Watergate; well, that is not it by a long shot. There were the McCarthy HUAC hearings that Nixon was totally on board with, and Nixon actually sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks so he would get elected as the g…
Louis, and no one was ever held accountable for the Reagan cheat or Iran-Contra. So many Americans think Nixon's problem was just Watergate; well, that is not it by a long shot. There were the McCarthy HUAC hearings that Nixon was totally on board with, and Nixon actually sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks so he would get elected as the guy who would end the war, which he only sort of did after many thousands of Americans, Vietnamese, and others died. By the way, Reagan was sold to the American people as kindly grandpa who was going to bring "Morning in America." Few realized that in the late 1960s, he had released troops on unarmed college students at Berkely during Vietnam protests. A whole lot of people were OK with Governor Reagan's troops gasing kids, trapping them in enclosed areas, setting off gas bombs where there were no actual protesters, and beating protesters. The "riots" were blamed on the students when it was they who protested, but the CA National Guard and various police departments that were the rioters for the most part. Trump has been an appalling figure before ever running for president but people loved the idea of that guy from "The Apprentice" being president despite little to no truth in the program, the way he had treated his employees and that he employed the immigrant workers he claimed to hate so much. Hypocrisy is/was strong with all of these guys.