Posted on 08/30/2023 7:19:26 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
In the first Republican presidential debate, Nikki Haley got in a pretty effective jab at Vivek Ramaswamy, the tech tyro who was informing the American people of his strange views on world affairs: “You have no foreign-policy experience, and it shows.” Never mind that Haley’s foreign-policy experience as Donald Trump’s mouthpiece at the United Nations hardly makes her Henry Kissinger. She’s right about Ramaswamy. His erratic suggestions for selling out Ukraine and Taiwan as part of some Risk-style geopolitical maneuver have now been revealed as reflecting a factually undernourished version of U.S. foreign policy that the candidate explained in a manifesto at The American Conservative.
It’s no surprise that Ramaswamy brands his proposed “doctrine” as president with the MAGA (and pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist) battle cry of “America First.” It also figures that he’d trace his hostility to “entangling alliances” back to George Washington, who famously warned against such invitations to the dominant European powers of his era to send wooden warships across the Atlantic (a relatively low threat today). I’d also give the boy wonder credit for touting the Monroe Doctrine as providing a loophole by which even enemies of U.S. troop deployments in Europe or Asia can nonetheless rattle sabers at Mexico.
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Nixon brought us the EPA.
Nixon should not have resigned. Especialy with the crushing 1972 mandate.
20/20 hindsight it gave the commies a taste (blood in the water):
- politics of personal destruction
- cover from commie media
- lily livered GOP
so does Alice Cooper
never heard the term “me too” Republican, but your description fits Nixon to a “T.” As mentioned, as much as the Left likes to paint him as cynical and manipulating, in fact, he was optimistic, naive and trusting. Washington DC and the nascent deep-state absolutely rolled him, many times.
I got the term from my father. It fits almost all Republicans (and everyone else!) of the WWII generation. Almost everyone was traumatized by both the Depression and WWII into thinking that constitutional government of the old republic was inadequate. Big government = “FDR socialism” solved it all both the economy & war.
Demeaning.
Vivek linking himself to Nixon foreign policy is not America First which means something different in 2023 than it did in 1940. Nixon also started us down the path of normalization with China.
Ramaswamy Says He Loves Richard Nixon. Is He Serious?
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We do not need another Imperial Presidency!!
He should never be taken seriously, is all that matters.
Not to mention legitimizing red China.
No, we had no trannies in women’s sport for decades after Title IX was passed. It was Obama and Biden’s executive decisions to reinterpret the language of the federal discrimination laws, without actually getting new laws passed, and the Supreme Court’s passive acceptance of that change, that led to trannies in women’s sports.
There was no free-market solution to the problems that were being dumped into our rivers and spewed out into the air in 1970. the problem with the EPA was that 30 years later, those problems were fixed and it need to “find” new ways to be relevant and well-funded.
I don’t “love” Nixon. But I like him, and always did.
I don’t like the EPA, price controls, etc.
But he loved his country and tried to do the right thing.
And I will always give him credit for Operation Linebacker II in the Christmas season in 1972 and the bombing of Hanoi and mining of Haiphong harbor. He will always have my respect for that.
“He did the best he could given the forces against him.”
I keep hearing the same excuse given for the failures of President Trump.
I am an old timer—and life has taught me a simple lesson.
If you make excuses for failures, all you get is more failures.
That is exactly what happened to the Republican Party.
Only Nixon could go to China
Sometimes excuses are reasons and sometimes they are not.
Wisdom is knowing the difference.
And he gave us the Dept of Education, stocked now w/ commies, socialists, Marxists and fascists.
That was Carter, he signed it into law in October of 1979.
Thanks for the correction.
Responses to this article are about as expected. Vivek wasn’t praising Nixon for his old school moderate Republican views. He was talking about a rather specific area.
BTW, the fact he’s willing to say positive things about Nixon at all tells me he has brains and is an independent thinker. Like Vivek, Nixon was before my time, and the only message one receives from the media and schooling regarding Nixon is that he was an evil bastard. A threat to democracy (sound familiar?). It takes independent thinking and research to discover he was a smart, complex man, whose positions were pretty representative of mainstream Republican views at that time.
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