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It's a bit silly to cite Nixon as a non-leftist, at least as a counterpoint to innguest claiming left wing andi-free market types are pro-segregation. Nixon wa
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
It's a bit silly to cite Nixon as a non-leftist, at least as a counterpoint to innguest claiming left wing andi-free market types are pro-segregation.
Nixon was a Republican mainly because he was anti-soviet. His domestic policies included wage and price controls, ending the gold standard, creating the EPA, federalizing medicaid and proposing an Obamacare-like health law. Nixon seems to support innguest's (unnecessarily partisan) point - opposition to civil rights does seem to require opposition to free markets.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoIf we are going by the political map in usage at the time when Nixon ran and governed, then he was a right-winger. That today's political spectrum is far to the right of Nixon is not a fact about Nixon at all, but instead a fact about history after Nixon.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoNope. To borrow a quote from Wikipedia: "by identifying himself with a policy whose purpose was inflation's defeat, Nixon made it difficult for Democratic opponents ... to criticize him. His opponents could offer no alternative policy that was either plausible or believable since the one they favored was one they had designed but which the president had appropriated for himself." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#Economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#Economy I guess the 1970's Democrats were also not left wing?