Lincoln Square - Trump & Co. Are Breaking Laws: Arrest The Criminals.
Stuart Stevens
Back when I was a Republican political consultant, I made hundreds of ads that revolved around one of the most effective wedge issues Republicans used to attack Democrats: law and order.
A Republican candidate or elected official talking about law and order was like Z-Pac, a broad-spectrum antibiotic with reliable results. Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign was built on the law-and-order theme. It was the foundation of his “silent majority,” an appeal to white middle-class voters after a summer of civil unrest in over 100 cities and chaos at the Democratic convention.
“As we look at America, we see cities enveloped in smoke and flame. We hear sirens in the night,” Nixon thundered in his RNC convention acceptance speech. “We see Americans dying... We see a nation that has lost control of its streets.”
Trump echoed the same in his inaugural address with his dystopian description of an America with no borders and cities full of “crime and drugs…This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” If Nixon’s appeal to white voters was somewhat subtle in its racist undertones, Trump removed all plausible deniability. His message: non-whites in our country are a danger to white Americans.
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