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'''Richard Milhous Nixon''' (1913–1994), 37th President (1969–1974), executed the most heterodox economic and geopolitical turns of any modern president and remains the case study in elite removal of an elected leader.
"'''"Nixon''' appears in Haz's constitutional-crisis analysis — the benchmark of a vanished veneer.


== Record ==
== From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/14f94259-9bf5-4ae8-aaed-31205e0fd690/ RED PILL NEWS | PALESTINE WAR stream] ==
* August 15, 1971 ("Nixon Shock"): closed the gold window, imposed wage-price controls, import surcharge — the de facto default ending Bretton Woods and the dollar's discipline, opening the era of pure fiat finance.
On Trump and the Democrats both instrumentalizing the Constitution ("how do we get a loophole around this"):
* Opening to China (1972): realpolitik triangulation with Mao against the USSR — praised by Infrared as recognition of the multipolar reality liberals still deny.
* Vietnamization, Cambodia bombing, Laos — the war's criminal expansion alongside its winding down; the all-volunteer army ended the draft's political cost.
* Watergate: the burglary, tapes, and cover-up; resigned August 1974 facing certain impeachment.


== Infrared reading ==
> "You could say that was true since FDR — you could say that's FDR, that's Richard Nixon. And I'm like, yeah, but it was never so explicit. There was this veneer back then — this aestheticization of American democracy into an ideology, which covered up that discrepancy for a long time. But precisely that ideology has collapsed."
Haz has noted the irony: the "hated Nixon" delivered wage-price controls (planning!), détente, and China, while the "good" presidents delivered financialization. Watergate itself is read through the deep-state lens a faction fight within the imperial apparatus in which the intelligence community's power over the presidency was demonstrated (see [[John Fritzgerald Kennedy]], [[Anglo Box]]).
 
== The point ==
Nixon-era constitutional evasion happened under an operative democratic ideology; today the ideology itself is dead, leaving raw power management without legitimation — the condition Infrared's whole strategy addresses ([[New Deal]], [[MAGA Communism]]).


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Jimmy Carter]]
* [[Woodrow Wilson]]
* [[Neo-Conservatism is Trotskyism]]


== References ==
== References ==
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Revision as of 10:19, 21 August 2026

""Nixon appears in Haz's constitutional-crisis analysis — the benchmark of a vanished veneer.

On Trump and the Democrats both instrumentalizing the Constitution ("how do we get a loophole around this"):

> "You could say that was true since FDR — you could say that's FDR, that's Richard Nixon. And I'm like, yeah, but it was never so explicit. There was this veneer back then — this aestheticization of American democracy into an ideology, which covered up that discrepancy for a long time. But precisely that ideology has collapsed."

The point

Nixon-era constitutional evasion happened under an operative democratic ideology; today the ideology itself is dead, leaving raw power management without legitimation — the condition Infrared's whole strategy addresses (New Deal, MAGA Communism).

See also

References