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Squinch

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9. No, I know you don't mean it nastily.

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #2)

Sun May 31, 2020, 06:27 AM

May 2020

What I mean is that we have a historical example of things going the other way.

In the run up to the 1968 election, there had been widespread riots - antiwar, and riots after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. Nixon used the fear the riots raised in people. He ran on a "law and order" message, used lots of dog whistles, stoked racism and that was a lot of the reason why he won the election.

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I don't understand what you mean, Squinch. murielm99 May 2020 #2

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