Social racist politicians chose to frame their defense of racial segregation through the language of “law and order” since Nixon’s administration. Nixon’s campaign rise in a time of a lot of social discomfort or malaise about how the “progressive” government of LBJ failed to provide to the needs of the people because of the Vietnam war, they (southerners) were not happy about segregation, civil rights social unrest, anti-war protest, and the new queer liberation movement. The United States of America was living a time of social unrest likely in a way to what we experienced last 2020 summer. Nixon used coded racism to appeal to what he called “the silent majority”. White-suburban and southerners that were not comfortable or this not feel represented by the new “liberal” democratic party. With Law and Order, Nixon is calling and promising the stop of protest voiced by the minorities in the country. To bring things to normality, or to what it was (America Great Again) means to give back to the white people their privilege their comfort of superiority. We are right, they are wrong, we are patriots they are terrorists, type of relationship. Law and Order became a coded speech to ensure to those white privileged people that their ideas, their America, their privileged reality, their way of life will not suffer more, they are the majority, they are the representation of American Values.
Donald Trump and the Republican party are the greatest examples of the effects of Nixon’s Southern Strategy. He tapped into the fears of White People losing privilege or more than anything being forced to share it. The Make America Great Again was the “law and order” of Trumps campaigns. A promise to those southerners and northerners white people, that their “American way of life” will never change, or rather will comeback again, a white America, with white supremacy values and beliefs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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