07-08-2020, 12:23 PM
(07-08-2020, 01:36 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: This tack is just a political ploy by Trump. He sees that it worked for Nixon and George Wallace. He is exaggerating and distorting the lawless actions so that people will be afraid and vote for him as the law and order candidate. But as one pundit pointed out, that worked for Nixon because he was not the incumbent. Trump is now the incumbent, and if lawlessness gets worse before November, the people will blame him and a Lichtman Key will turn against him, costing him the election...
The other and perhaps more important point: Nixon was making that pitch at the beginning of a conservative phase, when faith and interest in liberal ideas were at their nadir. We're in the opposite transition now, so that pitch will tend to sound very tinny and out of time -- because it is.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.