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« on: October 05, 2021, 09:55:57 PM »

Before the thrombotic stroke in 1994, Nixon told his secretary that he thought that he had at least ten more years of life left.

Richard Nixon now lives to the middle of 2004. How would he react to Monica Lewinsky? Bush/Gore in 2000? 9/11? The invasion of Iraq?
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« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2021, 10:08:03 PM »

I'm guessing similarly to how most Republicans did.
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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2021, 01:41:49 PM »

I would be particularly interested to see his reaction to Iraq. With his experience managing Vietnam, Nixon would understand better than most politicians the danger of military quagmires. Then again, like most Americans, maybe he would think things would go differently for the US hyperpower in the post-Cold War world.
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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2021, 03:44:01 PM »

I've been wondering what his reaction to Monica Lewinsky would've been for 20 years....at least in part because I kinda see the Clinton impeachment as revenge for Nixon.
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« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2021, 01:23:08 PM »

nixon supposedly told trump he should run for president, so maybe in this atl trump is elected in 2012

obama losing reelection would be big, since it'd indicate dems' doing the corporate identity politics gimmick doesn't work. much less "wokeness", more social liberalism of the hedonistic sort -- 2021 looks much like 2009 or 2010 with current technology and more liberal attitudes on lgbt/weed

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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2021, 03:49:03 PM »

nixon supposedly told trump he should run for president, so maybe in this atl trump is elected in 2012

obama losing reelection would be big, since it'd indicate dems' doing the corporate identity politics gimmick doesn't work. much less "wokeness", more social liberalism of the hedonistic sort -- 2021 looks much like 2009 or 2010 with current technology and more liberal attitudes on lgbt/weed

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Except:

The time really wouldn't have been right for Trump in 2012. Anger at immigration hadn't boiled over, ISIS wasn't on anybody's radar, & the general feeling was that things weren't good but they weren't getting worse. That had changed for many of the people who mattered (& propelled Trump to victory) in 2016. Had he ran on the same populist platform, he would've lost the general by a significant margin.

And the birtherism thing was also something that most people, regardless of their views, thought was ridiculous & wouldn't get behind. Birtherism had a peak, in mid-2009, as the Tea Party rallies got a bit out of hand, but afterwards, it was widely discredited & even the most populist voices on the right (like Limbaugh & Hannity) were calling it out as dumb.
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