Makes sense. There's been a lot of commentary over the years that after Nixon Republicans decided that their principles could never get in the way of holding power again.

And they're run by ghouls on life support who still care about the 70's.

trying to erase history

the US let an insurrection off, he should have been in a federal jail for life but you then rewarded him with the presidency... again. If there are no consequences for a bully physcopath, all you've done is let them know that behaviour is ok.

he said he could shoot some random and hed het away with it and he's right

This shows that they aren't concerned about what's coming and are just rewriting history.

It will be interesting to see how much more weird shit people will believe by 2028 if the human race makes it that long

Of course because this is the pressing issue of the new millennium. Everyone sitting around going man Nixon really got the short end of the stick.

Does anyone think this is just going to end? Fascism is the future.

Conservatives still see absolutely nothing at all wrong with Nixon's behavior. They even glorify it in their music and their political commentary. Cheating in elections and spying on American citizens is completely fine in their eyes (as long as it's conservatives doing it).

It's almost like conservatives are pure evil and should be completely excluded from normal society.

Nixon was the beginning of the right-wing coup against America. Roger Ailes (the Fox News aka Unofficial Propaganda Network guy) was Nixon's media aide. Redid his image from his 1960 loss. Key to the coup.

It's interesting that they're choosing to rehabilitate him now. It's a weird card to play.

If you believe, as I do, that fascist movements are more or less a forest fire, and that "grievances" are the fuel for that fire, then "rehab Nixon" is really "mine the Nixon issue for grievance fuel."

And if they're down to playing this card, they're running low on fuel.

Trump raped kids.

Of course he wants us talking about Nixon.

LOL, I've been saying for years and years that cons have a deep, simmering resentment about Nixon. I'd hear old assholes - think the parents of boomers - bitching about Nixon getting what they thought was a raw deal, because "liberal media".

I cannot tell you how many extremist right wingers and reactionary centrists would try to deny what I was saying.

And here we have it....people that were not even alive back then are still holding a grudge about it, like "JD" "Vance".

Who GAF about the fact that Nixon definitely was involved in these crimes and taped himself covering it up, it was The Deep State(TM), ROTFLMAO.

Some real not the onion shit here.

Nixon is the ONLY president that Trump can associate himself with. They’re both crooks.

In other news the Trump administration announces the dismantlement of the DOJ as all crime is now legal. Hoorah!

If he can clean Nixon, people will stop comparing how much more of a fucking criminal he is in comparison.

Fine, “delegitimize” the prosecutors and “clear” Nixon (he was never actually prosecuted due to Ford’s pardon). We’ll expand the supreme court, who will rule that because he was “cleared”, the pardon is null and void. Further, they’ll rule that because he was never prosecuted, double jeopardy doesn’t apply.

Then we can appoint a special prosecutor and convene a new grand jury to go after him and all the co-conspirators new and old for real this time. Dig up that rotten corpse and we’ll make the trial of Richard Nixon part of Reconstruction 2.0.

Great use of our tax dollars. Definitely focusing on the important stuff.

They’ll soon be claiming Hitler was the victim

All those kids in the streets with their "free Nixon" signs are going to love this!

Yeah that will help end the war in Iran, lower the gas and grocery prices, and bring justice to the Epstein-Trump child rape victims.

Under Ford's photo it says,

"He narrowly lost reelection to Jimmy Carter, probably because of his brave Pardon of Richard Nixon"

"brave"

🤮

A perfect move, this will surely raise his approval rating.

I also think, why not make it illegal to vote against him? One party, one truth.

Jack the Ripper did nothing wrong. Bloody woke police