They haven’t ever really been the “Law and Order” party, except insofar as “Law for thee and not for me” and “Order” meant keeping the plebes in line.
As far back as Nixon, he tried the “Law and Order” line to shut down protests of the Vietnam War – which he extended through secret and illegal negotiations with the North Vietnamese to ruin LBJ’s chance to stay in office, of course, and killed numerous American soldiers as a consequence. He considered martial law to stop people criticizing him. Sound familiar?
Reagan built on the racism used by Nixon – remembering that the “war on drugs” was aimed at imprisoning black people according to John Ehrlichman – and went still further to suppress poor people and minorities. Meanwhile, he, too, had negotiated secretly with America’s enemies to make Carter look bad. George HW Bush conveniently pardoned everyone involved with these criminal and traitorous activities.
And need we even discuss #45, who has already promised to pardon people who attacked the Capitol to overthrow the government? Plus of course all his relatively minor felonious activities, ranging from his deals with the Saudis to giving up our spies to supporting Putin openly.
They haven’t ever really been the “Law and Order” party, except insofar as “Law for thee and not for me” and “Order” meant keeping the plebes in line.
As far back as Nixon, he tried the “Law and Order” line to shut down protests of the Vietnam War – which he extended through secret and illegal negotiations with the North Vietnamese to ruin LBJ’s chance to stay in office, of course, and killed numerous American soldiers as a consequence. He considered martial law to stop people criticizing him. Sound familiar?
Reagan built on the racism used by Nixon – remembering that the “war on drugs” was aimed at imprisoning black people according to John Ehrlichman – and went still further to suppress poor people and minorities. Meanwhile, he, too, had negotiated secretly with America’s enemies to make Carter look bad. George HW Bush conveniently pardoned everyone involved with these criminal and traitorous activities.
And need we even discuss #45, who has already promised to pardon people who attacked the Capitol to overthrow the government? Plus of course all his relatively minor felonious activities, ranging from his deals with the Saudis to giving up our spies to supporting Putin openly.