“THE SILENT MAJORITY IS STRONGER THAN EVER!!!”
That was President Donald Trump’s analysis on Twitter of the current political climate in the U.S., likening it to the late 1960s and early 1970s — with radical antiwar and race riots — that helped propel Richard Nixon into the White House in 1968 and later helped engineer his 49-state sweep in his 1972 reelection bid.
Today, the issues are surely different. In the wake of the murder and manslaughter of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, radical protests and sometime riots have urged defunding or even abolishing the police. The democratic republic of Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) has sprung up in downtown Seattle.
MORE
