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Yep. I don't think anyone will say "Nixon was perfect!"; it's more that he is a nuanced and complicated figure that has some good amongst all the evil.
EDIT : It's easy to just look at watergate and the list of enemies, the rage and swearing and backstabbing, low charisma and say "Nixon bad". Some of the things that drove him are from his upbringing, things that were unfortunate, some based on genuine desire to be moral and do the right thing, some as a twisted form of self preservation. Do I like him? No. Do I think he's a good person? No.
I just want people to know about the depth of character he has and not just dismiss him as a cartoonish two faced villain.
Although I mock him and do the Billy West impression of him. Arooooo.
I wish we had politicians who weren't cartoonishly evil and aware of it. Like, Nixon was not a good person, but at least his scandal was something he resigned over... You know?
I don't think anything could make DJT resign. He's too much of a man-baby to allow it without a full blown tantrum and insurrection calling, probably.
Thing is, El Taco is the result of a 50 year campaign to ensure that Watergate can never happen again. Which would not have even been an issue if Tricky Dick hadn't become President by deliberately pandering to all the neo-Confederates who were butthurt that LBJ dared acknowledge that black people were actually human beings. So, y'know, he can still fuck right off.
Oh, absolutely. I'd happily piss on his grave. Even then, he was a shithead who, at least, had to pretend to be decent. We don't even have that anymore.
Honestly his foul mouth is one of his humanizing features to me.