President Trump is reviving the disgraceful legacy of 'law-and-order' politics — a term that had largely dropped out of the American political lexicon because of its association with racism and repression. ed_kilgore writes
Attendees hold up a cardboard sign featuring Donald Trump, former president Ronald Reagan, and actor John Wayne during a Trump campaign rally in Forth Worth, Texas on February 26, 2016. Photo: Laura Buckman/AFP via Getty Images Twice during his brief and truculent Rose Garden speech Monday night, President Trump identified himself with the cause of “law and order,” at one point announcing he was “your president of law and order.
For a possible analogy of the current nationwide explosion of unrest in response to the killing of George Floyd, you have to go back to the 1960s, particularly to the “long, hot summer” of 1967, when civil unrest occurred in 150 cities and the National Guard was called out in 34 states, and then the sometimes-violent protests in 1968 in more than a hundred locations following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Law-and-order politics were not strictly aimed at repressing African-Americans or quelling “race riots.” Thanks to the many late-1960s, early-1970s student protests focused on the War in Vietnam and America’s imperial pretensions, conservative politicians made great hay promising to rein in ungrateful middle-class students and self-styled campus radicals.
By the time Reagan was elected president, broad-scale civil unrest had subsided and students were no longer particularly liberal, much less radical. But tough-on-crime rhetoric in both parties was associated with rising crime rates and drug use.
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