The veep compared himself to the former president, painting him as another bad boy who overcame his snooty detractors and achieved supreme power.
By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
For Vance, Nixon’s the One!
One of the odder but also most telling quirks of the more intellectual of the MAGA warriors is a decided soft spot for Richard Nixon. That’s right: the disgraced 37th president of the United States, forced to resign to avoid almost certain impeachment and removal from office, is a not-so-secret heartthrob for devotees of the 45th and 47th president.
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The vice president, fascinated by the past leader, also compared Richard Nixon to President Donald Trump and the numerous…
J.D. Vance admired Nixon and drew parallels between the past president and Trump.
It’s not every day that you see the would-be frontrunner for a major party’s presidential nomination extolling the virtues of…
"The joke is that they’re doing so many crimes now that nobody would care about Nixon," one social media user sagely noted.
"The joke is that they’re doing so many crimes now that nobody would care about Nixon," one social media user sagely noted.
The TOI correspondent from Washington: US vice-president JD Vance’s journey from Hillbilly Elegy to Nixon eulogy on Thursday…
