‘Nixonmaxxing’ is real: How Gen Z discovered the deep state’s original coup

Published September 4, 2026 11:00am ET



For over 50 years, the establishment media has cemented in our modern history a simplistic view of former President Richard Nixon as a criminal villain. This cartoonish assessment stands in contrast to serious research showing that partisan media fraud forced him out of office. 

In the wake of the media-enabled Russiagate hoax, Gen Z, in a movement known as “Nixonmaxxing,” has begun to question the established anti-Nixon narrative. Many now espouse Nixon’s greatness as a wise, resolute champion of the common man, corruptly brought down by Democrat elites in coordination with an uncontrollable CIA. Ironically, the FBI, President Donald Trump’s current bete noire, had played it straight, even though its Deputy Director Mark Felt was used by the Washington Post to distort the Bureau’s investigative findings.

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