A lot can happen in 57 years.
In 1969 the corrupt President Nixon was president, the U.S. could not afford universal healthcare but did find the money to go to the moon while waging a war in Vietnam.
In 2026 the corrupt President Trump is president, the U.S. still cannot afford universal healthcare but does find the money to go to the moon while waging a war in Iran.
@realbloginista @randahl Nixon was a poor kid from a Quaker family. Trump was a nepo-baby of a famous racist.
Hard to tell, but it's reasonable to suspect Nixon was a prude. Trump bought sex (even a wife), was besties with a pedophile and trafficker, and likely abused children.
Nixon was eligible for military deferments, but joined the Navy anyway and served through WW2 in the South Pacific. Trump was not eligible for deferments, but bought false medical documents so he could avoid Vietnam.
That Nixon would turn out to be so amoral and fascistic was vaguely unexpected. That Trump would turn out so amoral and fascistic was fucking obvious.
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And here we are, a country where over half of the voters are either too amoral, fascist, racist or or too stupid to realize the obvious.
Trump's backers and handlers are very different from Nixon's as well.
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