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JD Vance's Speech BACKFIRES In His Face With Disastrous Nixon Claims
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6:51Now PlayingJD Vance sinks himself during an interview over Richard Nixon and makes the Trump administration look really bad with disastrous claims. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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J.D. Vance Identifies With Nixon, Which Says a Lot
"One of the odder but also most telling quirks of the more intellectual of the MAGA warriors is a decided soft spot for Richard Nixon. That’s right: the disgraced 37th president of the United States, forced to resign to avoid almost certain impeachment and removal from office, is a not-so-secret heartthrob for devotees of the 45th and 47th president.
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Vivek Ramaswamy raised some eyebrows by insisting that Nixon (you know, the president who opened diplomatic relations with Red China, promoted détente with the Soviet Union, and perpetuated a forever war in Vietnam) had forged the original America First foreign policy. He was far from alone in his nostalgia for The Tricky One. Highly influential culture warrior Christopher Rufo has treated Nixon as Trump’s progenitor on a broad range of issues, from law-and-order appeals to the demonization of academia and the liberal media, with special emphasis on Nixon’s battles with the federal bureaucracy he inherited from the New Deal and Great Society initiatives:"
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