Modern Age editor Daniel McCarthy, writing in The Spectator, notes the phenomenon of young Republicans turning to Richard Nixon as a political icon. The Wall Street Journal marvels at the Nixon craze among young conservatives, labeling it “Nixonmaxxing.” (RELATED: Nixon Goes Viral)What is behind this third Nixon comeback? Young conservatives greatly distrust the groups that took Nixon down and who still revile him as one of our worst presidents. The young conservatives have come to the conclusion that, as the great British historian Paul Johnson noted, Watergate was a “media putsch” to overturn the 1972 election.