RE: The Rehabilitation of President Richard M. Nixon
September 24, 2022 at 11:07 am
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2022 at 11:10 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(September 24, 2022 at 7:40 am)Jehanne Wrote: It is the cornerstone of American democracy that the losers ADMIT that they lost and graciously accept the peaceful transfer of power.
Trump's actions & behavior are completely unique in the history of the United States of America; no other President has behaved this way with respect to an election loss.
I’m not sure that accepting defeat qualifies Nixon as a ‘patriot’, since every losing presidential candidate (bar Trump) has done exactly that. It’s just business as usual, nothing special. It’s like declaring someone a patriot for driving a car or having running water.
And on top of that, Nixon wasn’t a particularly gracious loser.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
