SIMON BARBER: Donald Trump’s US is positively benign compared with Richard Nixon’s
Former president was a smoother liar than the current one, but no less driven by resentment. And he too fuelled the fear and rage of the silent majority
06 June 2019 - 05:07
With another impeachment in prospect I have had my nose in Nixonland, Rick Perlstein’s highly readable account of the 37th president’s life and times, through to his landslide re-election in 1972. It is a reminder that climate change, Donald Trump and the eruption of populism notwithstanding, we live in relatively halcyon times now.
I still have a trophy from my blooding as a journalist — a teargas canister I scored covering the Republican convention at which Nixon was nominated for his second term. ..
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