Crime
Republican Leaders Need A Lesson In Law And Order From Richard Nixon
As Nixon knew in 1968, if Republicans fail to be the party of benevolent order, people will elect anyone who gives them the justice they demand.
By Sumantra Maitra
June 3, 2020
In light of the protests and rioting engaged in, in the name of George Floyd, no words are more prescient and timelier than Richard Nixon’s acceptance speech at the 1968 Republican National Convention. The relevance stems not from its oratorical delivery—it is unthinkable to expect any, and I mean any, current politician to emulate Nixon’s stern sincerity—but due to the striking thematic similarity between 1968 and 2020.
Nixon’s words were just as appropriate in 1968 as if they were spoken by a conservative leader today: “As we look at America, we see cities enveloped in smoke and flame. We hear sirens in the night. We see Americans dying on distant battlefields abroad. We see Americans hating each other; fighting each other; killing each other at home. And as we see and hear these things, millions of Americans cry out in anguish. Did we come all this way for this?â€
After eight years of relentless divisive race-baiting and institutional corruption under President Obama; after more than three years of relentless institutional partisanship in academia, media, to our bloated bureaucracy; from women’s marches to “Russian collusion,†from radical campus professors to nihilist youths with little loyalty to community or country; mix these with external factors like rising great power hostility and a stagnating war in a faraway land, and it appears the country has finally reached its boiling point.
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