Law and Order 
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SOURCE: Truthout
9/22/2020
Trump Fuels March Toward Fascism With “Anarchist Jurisdictions” Edict
by Mark Bray
The declaration is part of Trump's efforts to divide the nation into the loyal and disloyal.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
9/8/2020
Trump’s Law-and-Order Campaign Relies on a Historic American Tradition of Racist and Anti-Immigrant Politics
by Austin Sarat
"Throughout this nation’s history, appeals to law and order have been as much about defending privilege as dealing with crime. They have been used in political campaigns to stigmatize racial, ethnic and religious groups and resist calls for social justice made by, and on behalf of, those groups."
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/9/2020
Trump’s 2020 Playbook Is Coming Straight From Southern Enslavers
by Elizabeth R. Varon
In arguing that radical protesters endanger U.S. law and order, Trump is echoing the attacks leveled by Southern enslavers against abolitionists.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
9/4/2020
The “Law and Order” Backlash Against Biden Was a Mirage
Donald Trump's "law and order" campaign message has failed to gain significant traction, which should put lazy comparisons to 1968 out to pasture.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/30/2020
Trump, Vicar of Fear and Violence
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow writes that Trump is just the latest in a long line of American politicians who have stoked racist fears for advantage.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
8/31/2020
Even After Their Fearmongering Proves Wrong, Republicans Keep At It. Here’s Why.
by Lawrence B. Glickman
Trump's politics of fear are an extension of reactionary political rhetoric that dates back to the effort by right-wing leaders to argue that New Deal programs would lead to totalitarianism.
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SOURCE: Axios
8/27/2020
Trump and Biden Ready to Refight 1968
Neither campaign can control the events — or root causes — driving America’s summer of unrest. But they both want to control the narrative.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/22/2020
Donald Trump’s Message is Falling Flat Because it is Outdated
by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
Our cities and suburbs look and feel very different than they did in the depths of the urban crisis in the late 1960s. That’s one reason Trump’s attempt to revive the law-and-order playbook of that era has fallen flat.
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SOURCE: Rolling Stone
6/15/2020
The Disgrace of Donald Trump
by Sean Wilentz
Trump wants to copy Richard Nixon's "law and order" appeals, but may end up echoing Herber Hoover's violent crushing of the Bonus March movement.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
6/16/2020
Riots Helped Elect Nixon in 1968. Can Trump Benefit From Fear and Loathing Too?
According to New York University historian Timothy Naftali, Trump's mimicry of Nixon's '68 campaign is "based upon a fundamental misreading of history."
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
6/7/2020
2020 Is Not 1968. It May Be Worse.
by Niall Ferguson
The Hoover Institution Senior Fellow suggests that the current political climate--a reelection campaign amid multiple national crises--has both similarities and differences from 1968.
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SOURCE: KPFA
6/2/2020
Explaining the Insurrection Act of 1807 and Looking Back on Nixon’s Law & Order Campaign (Podcast)
Hear from historian Rick Perlstein on the history of Nixon's Law and Order Campaign.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/1/2020
Five Reasons ‘Law and Order’ Rhetoric Might not Work as Well in 2020 as in 1968
by Max Boot
The “Southern strategy” could work again this year, but there are at least five reasons to believe it might not be as potent as in the past.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/2/2020
Law And Order Won’t Help Trump Win Reelection
by Kevin M. Kruse
The call for “law and order” is a complaint that those tasked with upholding the law and maintaining order have failed at the job and need to be replaced.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/2/2020
You Can’t Be the ‘President of Law and Order’ if You Thrive on Chaos
by Jamelle Bouie
We should be aware of the past — we should understand the processes that produced our world — but it shouldn’t be a substitute for thinking. We are not them, and now is not then.
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11/11/18
The Militarization of the US-Mexico Border is Not a New Idea
by Aaron Brown
It started with Nixon.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
11-5-18
The 'law and order’ campaign that won Richard Nixon the White House 50 years ago
Trump has invoked the same phrase as he campaigns for Republicans.
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11/4/18
Fear and Loathing on the Southern Border are Not New
by Robert Bartholomew
Our long history of demonizing Latin Americans.
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SOURCE: Politico
10-28-18
The Time a President Stoked a Protest So He Could Play the ‘Law and Order’ Card
by David Greenberg
Running against Democratic ‘mobs’ has worked for Republicans in the past.
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