Willie Horton

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  10/2/2022
  

  Forget Inflation: GOP Reviving Willie Horton (and It's Working)

  by Will Bunch

  "The GOP is partying like it’s 1988 — the year that scary pictures of a felon they called Willie Horton and grainy images of Black crime saved a party equally devoid of actual policies," says columnist Will Bunch. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/22/2020
  

  A Glimmer of Hope for Trump? How Bush Mounted a Comeback in 1988

  It will surprise no one if Trump pursues the sort of negative race-baiting campaign that George H.W. Bush used to rally after trailing Michael Dukakis in the summer. What remains to be seen will be if Trump can convincingly portray Biden as a greater danger to the public.