I like that he's the best president in the last half century and he routinely does things so unfathomably retarded, his supporters have to wonder if 4D chess is a less complicated explanation.
The more I listen to the Nixon tapes the more I conclude he was a good man (where I would've thought the opposite 10 years ago). His misadventures with Vietnam and price fixing are low spots, but he wasn't responsible for getting us into that war.
People who were Republicans before the late 1960s were not neocons, because neocons were the Democrats who switched sides to the Republicans over foreign policy issues in the 1968 and especially in 1972 over the nomination of McGovern to be the Dem candidate against Nixon.
Ford first ran for congress as a Republican in 1948.
Reagan joined the Republican party officially in 1962, and had given speeches against Medicaid before that.
The timeline doesn't match up for them to be neocons.
Some of us have been strapped to the Trump Train like a Greenpeace Activist on a 400 year old Oak of historical significance.
It's made it easier to deal with the moments you describe. I may not like every twist and turn this train takes, but it's still infinitely better than the alternative.
I like that he's the best president in the last half century and he routinely does things so unfathomably retarded, his supporters have to wonder if 4D chess is a less complicated explanation.
The bar is looooow, man.
Ford, Carter, Reagan, then alternating neocons and neolibs? Yeah, that's the sort of bar you might stub a toe on while going over.
For all the hate he got Nixon really wasn't that bad
The more I listen to the Nixon tapes the more I conclude he was a good man (where I would've thought the opposite 10 years ago). His misadventures with Vietnam and price fixing are low spots, but he wasn't responsible for getting us into that war.
Bad presidents don't get an electoral map like this
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/ElectoralCollege1972.svg/500px-ElectoralCollege1972.svg.png
I'd worry about splinters on the bottom of my foot.
People who were Republicans before the late 1960s were not neocons, because neocons were the Democrats who switched sides to the Republicans over foreign policy issues in the 1968 and especially in 1972 over the nomination of McGovern to be the Dem candidate against Nixon.
Ford first ran for congress as a Republican in 1948.
Reagan joined the Republican party officially in 1962, and had given speeches against Medicaid before that.
The timeline doesn't match up for them to be neocons.
You may want to read that again. Then, meaning the ones who came after Reagan.
Some of us have been strapped to the Trump Train like a Greenpeace Activist on a 400 year old Oak of historical significance.
It's made it easier to deal with the moments you describe. I may not like every twist and turn this train takes, but it's still infinitely better than the alternative.
Excellent point.