Why All The Hype For Nixon?
Nixonmaxxers turn a good but flawed statesman into an idol. (Bettmann / Contributor/Getty Images) Scott Greer Jul 26, 2026 12:01 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... More than three decades after his death, Richard Milhouse Nixon is finally having his moment. A new generation of conservatives has come to admire the 37th president.
- ▪Nixonmaxxers turn a good but flawed statesman into an idol. (Bettmann / Contributor/Getty Images) Scott Greer Jul 26, 2026 12:01 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player...
- ▪More than three decades after his death, Richard Milhouse Nixon is finally having his moment.
- ▪A new generation of conservatives has come to admire the 37th president.
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History Why All The Hype For Nixon? Nixonmaxxers turn a good but flawed statesman into an idol. (Bettmann / Contributor/Getty Images) Scott Greer Jul 26, 2026 12:01 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... More than three decades after his death, Richard Milhouse Nixon is finally having his moment. A new generation of conservatives has come to admire the 37th president. They see him as the model Republican leader, far superior to Ronald Reagan and even Donald Trump. Hype edits of his speeches regularly go viral on social media. To those who partake in Nixonmaxxing, as the phenomenon has been dubbed, he is the man who nearly saved America—until the deep state took him out.
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