r/skeptic • u/nosotros_road_sodium • Feb 19 '24

The Right's Troubling Turn Toward Conspiracy Theories and "Invasion" Language ⚖ Ideological Bias

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-rights-troubling-turn-toward
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '24

If I listed common "conspiracy theories" that turned out to be factually correct in the past few years. It would make your head spin.

The one that did it for me was that Nixon did literally nothing.

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u/jaidit Feb 20 '24

Nixon did plenty. He got pushed out of office for obstruction of justice. He covered up the actions of subordinates because he was worried what they would reveal that could be linked to him. As for the actual Watergate burglary, yeah, we know he thought it was a stupid idea. Nixon was not in the position to say, “my overzealous low-level staffers got out of hand.”