Posted on 10/22/2020 10:45:41 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
(THE CONVERSATION) In this year’s presidential election, terms such as “law and order” and “the silent majority” have been heard fairly often from Donald Trump and some of his supporters.
Those phrases hark back to an earlier presidential election, which took place in 1968. That one was a three-way affair involving former Vice President Richard Nixon, a Republican; incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat; and the third-party candidacy of a Southern segregationist, Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
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I voted for Nixon. Pat Buchanan’s Southern strategy was brilliant and went on to serve Reagan well 12 years later.
Didn’t we have a flu pandemic then?
One difference is, in 1968 most Americans loved America.
"Law and order" means racism.
mass incarceration comes from mass crime.
More:
“Neighborhood schools” is code for segregated schools or opposition to busing.
“Safe streets” and “safe neighborhoods” means keep the blacks out.
“Law and order” means racism against blacks through police action.
looks a lot like today's – but it was very differentSo, it's the same thing only different.
I use that exact phrase all the time to describe things to people.
As an aside I met Hubert Humphrey and wife an hour after Nixon's inauguration walking out of the Capitol building.
of a Southern segregationist, Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
How about more appropriately States Rights Candidate.
In today’s leftist jargon “dog whistles”. One trick ponies.
Look what the Demonicrats and the enemydia did in 1964!!
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