Nixon and McGovern

Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. You’re reading Boiling Frogs, Nick Catoggio’s daily newsletter on politics. To unlock the full version, become a Dispatch member today. Richard Nixon is back in vogue among Republicans, something that a younger me wouldn’t have thought possible. After all, a Nixon renaissance would require the right to lose its taste for small-government conservatism and to acquire a taste for criminality, which seemed unlikely. Nick Catoggio is a staff writer at The Dispatch and is based in Texas. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 16 years gradually alienating a populist readership at Hot Air. When Nick isn’t busy writing a daily newsletter on politics, he’s