Posted on 09/01/2020 5:08:33 AM PDT by karpov
When Donald Trump declared himself “the president of law and order,” comparisons immediately ran to Richard Nixon and 1968. Nixon too had campaigned on law and order, against the backdrop of urban riots following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and antiwar protesters who clashed with Chicago police right outside the Democratic convention.
So the Nixon analogy is apt. But it is incomplete without its complement: Joe Biden as Hubert Humphrey.
Like Mr. Biden, Humphrey was a garrulous establishment liberal and vice president who had spent decades in the Senate. Each man was nominated by a divided Democratic Party. Both were dogged by the enthusiasm for their more progressive runners-up, Sens. Eugene McCarthy and Bernie Sanders. And these divisions made it difficult for either presidential nominee to sound as tough as his GOP rival.
In September 1968, the New York Times reported a Harris survey confirming that law and order was “one of the most powerful issues running in [Nixon’s] favor this year.” This year’s equivalent came last week on CNN, when Don Lemon complained that Mr. Biden’s strategy of ignoring the antipolice violence in Kenosha, Wis., was a “blind spot” that is “showing up in the polling. It’s showing up in focus groups. It is the only thing right now that is sticking.”
And so, after not mentioning the issue at his convention two weeks ago, Mr. Biden has offered a belated it’s-all-Trump’s fault denunciation. Given the media’s naked animosity for the president, it may well pick up the Biden message. The question is whether Americans watching the mayhem will buy it.
The problem for Mr. Biden isn’t so much the rioters themselves. Those looting shops along Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, shooting people in Portland, Ore., or setting cars on fire in Kenosha aren’t Biden voters.
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What BS.
You know, I have never considered the timing of historical riots to the political election cycles of the past.
I wonder...
Is Biden the new Eagleton?
Nope. Back then, there were Americans in America. We’ve let the public schools indoctrinate the young. Now, a significant number of inhabitants of this country don’t see themselves as American, and aren’t proud of any aspect of this country.
That is Biden’s base.
Slo-joe said yesterday that President Trump has failed to address the violence of his supporters and the “right wing” militias, blah, blah, blah....
Yet he’s still silent about his supporters who ARE the ones engaging in violence, burning, looting, and murdering.
Any antifa or blm who’s gotten smoked was 100% the result of self defense on our part.
If Humphrey were alive today, he’d be Republican.
As would JFK
As would JFK
No democrat today would say, “Ask not what your country can do for you...”.
Humphrey liked America. Slow Joe is neutral at best.
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