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Roy Cohn and Roger Stone have a long History with Donald.. (Original Post) busterbrown May 2017 OP
And Roger Stone is an old Nixon protege - one of the original The Velveteen Ocelot May 2017 #1

The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. And Roger Stone is an old Nixon protege - one of the original
Wed May 10, 2017, 06:45 PM
May 2017

ratfuckers. No surprise there.

After resigning from the Presidency in disgrace, in 1974, Nixon remained, for the most part, off limits as a political hero. Stone and a small handful of others kept his memory alive by conveying their admiration for Nixon’s toughness and determination. (Stone, though, is the rare Nixon follower who has a tattoo of the great man on his back.) It was convenient for many Republicans to pretend that Reagan had excised Nixon from the Party’s DNA. But, as the rise of Trump shows, Nixon never really went away....

It’s Nixon’s affect and ferocity, more than any policies, that Stone admires and that Trump reflects. Like Nixon, Trump has held positions all over the spectrum; he’s been pro-choice, pro-Iraq War, pro-national health care, and now he holds opposing views on all those issues. But what has remained consistent over the years is Trump’s primal need to dominate and humiliate his adversaries. The first hundred days of his Presidency have demonstrated that he’s more interested in winning than in governing. Nixon, too, wanted to win more than he wanted to accomplish anything in particular, and his legacy reflects those oddly paired objectives.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/roger-stone-and-the-trump-nixon-connection
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