Law and Order and Trump

American Thinker ^ | August 3, 2016 | Karl Spence

[Kaslin]

Donald Trump has taken a stand for "law and order." He may be the first Republican presidential nominee since Richard Nixon to dare pronounce those words, so thoroughly has the GOP internalized the Democrats' canard that "'Law and order' are code words for racism." In the opinion of one Nixon scholar, however, Trump doesn’t measure up to the Old Man’s standard.

Rick Perlstein, author of a splendid series of works on Goldwater, Nixon, and Reagan, faults Trump's acceptance speech for failing to rise to the heights of the one Nixon gave in 1968. Perlstein calls that speech Nixon's "masterpiece: poetic, shot through with rhythm and imagery and propulsion, layered into a carefully constructed latticework," etc., etc. Not like Trump’s speech at all.

We all know that Trump is no Lincoln. Most of us understand he's no Reagan. Now we find he's not even Nixon, for crying out loud. Even so, in calling for law and order while the Democrats kiss up to its enemies, he's this year's indispensable man. For the sake of crime victims everywhere, Trump should be elected.

But what, besides rhetoric, can he offer them? Here is where, in Perlstein's view, Trump falls most woefully short. "Nixon never said it would be easy," Perlstein writes. "Trump says nothing else. It was the theme of his convention. ... The spirit of magic pervaded everything: Trump, with his wand, making awesome things happen instantaneously."

[Mears]

“———the one Nixon gave in 1968. Perlstein calls that speech Nixon’s “masterpiece: poetic, shot through with rhythm and imagery and propulsion, layered into a carefully constructed latticework,” etc., etc”

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Somehow I find the description of the speech a tad over-the-top———and funny.

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[Albion Wilde]

Rick Perlstein... faults Trump's acceptance speech for failing to rise to the heights of the one Nixon gave in 1968. Perlstein calls that speech Nixon's "masterpiece: poetic, shot through with rhythm and imagery and propulsion, layered into a carefully constructed latticework," etc., etc. Not like Trump’s speech at all.

Talk is cheap, including the talk of talking heads. Trump is a man of action. He will look for a way to get it done and then he will get it done.

[JimRed]

...so thoroughly has the GOP internalized the Democrats' canard that "'Law and order' are code words for racism."

Since back then most of the violent protest was committed by students, predominantly white, it is amazing that the "racism" nonsense ever stuck. Media + big lie + repetition = Lie becomes accepted as truth.