Blame it on Richard Nixon

There is, of course, plenty of blame to go around, but Richard Nixon did give us two terrible precedents. Both struck at the heart of our constitutional order, and they are key elements of our current political catastrophe. 

The first of these precedents occurred in the wake of the 1960 election. As you know, John F. Kennedy stole the election with the help of the Mafia in Chicago and the crooked cronies of “Landslide” Lyndon Johnson in Texas. Although this was widely known at the time, Nixon decided not to challenge the results in Illinois and Texas. It was said that he did not want to put the nation through the trauma of a disputed presidential election.

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-Rurik