Was Richard Nixon actually to the left of Jimmy Carter on economics?

>>17815115 (OP)
Leftism didn't exist in 70s America because niggers and trannies knew their place.

>>17815140
wrong, negros got uppity

>>17815115 (OP)
Yes, Nixon implemented price controls while Carter deregulated industries and appointed the hawkish Paul Volcker to the Federal Reserve.

>>17815170
He also did EPA

The insight into carter is he had no real strong convictions because he was a moron, kind of like Bush jr

>>17815115 (OP)
Maybe?
>>17815140
>niggers and trannies knew their place.
>In the 70s

>>17815115 (OP)
Politics actually used to represent different groups interests whos votes you couldn't win without, instead of the insane system we've had since the 80's where economic issues are off the table but you get watch a culture wrestling spectacle instead.

>>17815115 (OP)
Nixon and basically every president between him and FDR believed the post-New Deal Keynesian order was essential to keeping the US competitive on the international stage even if he most likely ideologically detested it as a conservative. Carter was sort of the first president who dipped his toes into neoclassical/neoliberalism before it went into hyperdrive with Reagan and became the new Washington consensus
>>17815170

>>17815115 (OP)
there's 2 different answers to that question
on a personal level, hell no. nixon was hard right and almost certainly hated the new deal/great society economic order
but as a politician, he had to accept it and work with it because that's what the people wanted and they would vote you out if you pushed back against it.
so he implemented relatively left wing policies out of simple pragmatism even though he personally hated all of them. same thing with eisenhower; he wrote many letters bitching about social security but recognized that it was suicide to try and get rid of it or even scale it down in any way

>>17815115 (OP)
Yes, he was. Very famously so.