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'The politics of racial division': Trump borrows Nixon's 'southern strategy
theguardian ^ | 09/05/2020 | Daniel Strauss

Posted on 09/08/2020 10:05:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Donald Trump has warned that if Joe Biden replaces him as president the suburbs will be flooded with low-income housing. He has backed supporters who have sometimes violently clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters across the country. The US president has even refrained from directly condemning the actions of a teenager charged with killing two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

And Trump has also called the BLM movement a “symbol of hate”.

With such rhetoric, the president is taking a page or two out of the 1960s “southern strategy”: the playbook Republican politicians such as Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater used to rally political support among white voters across the south by leveraging racism and white fear of people of color.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; election2020; landslide; nixon; southern; strategy; trump; trumplandslide
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They love digging up Nixon. Their go too when they have nothing else.
1 posted on 09/08/2020 10:05:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Oh, the brits. Yawn............


2 posted on 09/08/2020 10:06:28 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Right and that’s why he had an African-American woman, a released prisoner, Alice Johnson have the spotlight before he spoke at the RNC Convention...Granting her a full pardon the next day.


3 posted on 09/08/2020 10:07:21 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More lies from the pathological lying “Guardian” and their Delusional Lying Leftist media buddies.


4 posted on 09/08/2020 10:10:45 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

After watching everything go on with Trump I now how much of Watergate was set up to get Nixon... at this point I now Question everything when it comes to facts and interpretation of facts.


5 posted on 09/08/2020 10:10:53 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (wwg1wga)
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Why is it racist for people in the suburbs who want to protect their neighborhoods from becoming a cesspool of drive-bys, domestic violence calls, murals and graffiti on walls, and loud car music?

Will any of these elites demanding that suburbanites accept this - are they going to welcome them with open arms too? Will there be Section 8 housing built in the Hamptons or Beverly Hills?

If minorities have the means and ability to move to suburban or rural areas, I don't have a problem with it.

6 posted on 09/08/2020 10:11:28 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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Another reason why I don’t like the Brits. They act as if somehow we’re a bunch of unruly kids they have to ride herd over.


7 posted on 09/08/2020 10:12:29 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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After watching everything going on with Trump. I now wonder how much of Watergate was set up to get Nixon... at this point I now Question everything when it comes to facts and interpretation of facts.


8 posted on 09/08/2020 10:12:32 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (wwg1wga)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A better parallel would be between Biden and Nixon. But Nixon had functioning brains.


9 posted on 09/08/2020 10:12:50 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Out town fathers changed the zoning rules so that there are no more existing multi-unit homes in our town.

There are about half a dozen properties than can be subdivided into building lots.

So, in essence, the town put out a “all full” sign at the border.

I love my town management.


10 posted on 09/08/2020 10:13:31 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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BLM is busily causing white Democrats to #WalkAway from the Democrat Party.
11 posted on 09/08/2020 10:13:50 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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"Donald Trump has warned that if Joe Biden replaces him as president the suburbs will be flooded with low-income housing ... leveraging racism and white fear of people of color."

Did Joe "Poor kids are just as smart as white kids" Biden write this? It was racist when he said it, it's racist when the UK Guardian prints it. Poverty does not equal black!

The US president has even refrained from directly condemning the actions of a teenager charged with killing two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Completely devoid of any context & facts of the case. From all video angles and analysis I've seen, the teenager was acting in self defense.

And Trump has also called the BLM movement a “symbol of hate”.

"Fiery but mostly peaceful protests" are good right?

12 posted on 09/08/2020 10:15:42 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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It’s not a warning to the suburbs; it is a fact from the Obama-Biden dictatorship. It was already a Housing program and was stopped by Trump.


13 posted on 09/08/2020 10:15:56 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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Yeah cause we all know BLM and ANTIFA are really Trump supporters/sarc


14 posted on 09/08/2020 10:16:14 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Nixon won last time I checked so it obviously works


15 posted on 09/08/2020 10:16:35 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They should ask themselves...why is it so successful? Is it because 13% of the population commits 50% of the murders? Can it be because of riots? No...can’t be. It just...racism. For not reason other than difference in skin color...


16 posted on 09/08/2020 10:17:36 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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It’s not a warning to the suburbs; it is a fact from the Obama-Biden dictatorship,/I>

Obama/Biden ruined many a city with their Somali relocation program - Rutland VT comes to mine. The we have small cities that are now under attack; Albany NY, Rochester NY, next the suburbs.

17 posted on 09/08/2020 10:18:07 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That and Russia.


18 posted on 09/08/2020 10:18:10 AM PDT by pas
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To: PCPOET7

It never made sense to me why Nixon (or anyone) felt a Watergate break-in was necessary although the campaign spying, recording, etc. were not unique to his administration. Just dive into Obama/Biden administration’s efforts to help Hillary against Trump! That really made Watergate look like a 2nd rate burglary.


19 posted on 09/08/2020 10:18:37 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Actually the opposite. He’s looking to carve out a larger percentage of black voters. His opponents both like putting black people in jail.


20 posted on 09/08/2020 10:19:54 AM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates.)
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