Because you grew up in a culture so pervaded with it that you probably took it for granted as just normal history. Did you know that Nixon:
- Nearly won with a unanimous electoral college victory (FLAWLESS VICTORY)
- Created the EPA
- Pushed Affirmative Action
- Gave the Indians their reservations back after FDR stole even that
- Ended Vietnam
- Did nothing that no other President since or BEFORE (JFK) didn’t do with illegal political espionage
If you’re the average American, you know none of these things and probably had an impression of him as being purely bad, purely defined by his Watergate scandal (only big because it was the first such, small potatoes compared to Obama shenanigans), far more Right wing than he was, and widely hated instead of widely loved. Because if I turn on a movie or TV show, especially a Groening one like Simpsons or Futurama, that’s all I’ll hear is the same Nixon jokes over and over.
He was hated by the same kinds of faggots that hate Trump, and sadly, unless there’s a giant war or revolution or something, Trump will go down the same way; people that were alive and paying attention at the time will remember how he was slandered, but future generations will having nothing to go off but the spin.