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Top Dem Strategist: Dems at risk of allowing riots and violence to define their party as they did in '68

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Posted by Lex 2020-06-05 14:23|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I understand where everyone is going with the '68 comparisons.

At the risk of being an Eeyore, let's take a look at what happened in those times.

Nixon won a very close race thanks to George Wallace taking a lot of his votes.

Nixon took office and gave us the EPA and a bunch of other items from the liberal wishlist.

Nixon then won a landslide in '72 (with some help from the assassination attempt on George Wallace).

There was a lot of noise from the Nixon camp that his second term would see the reining in of Leviathan.

Nixon's second term was a Golden Age of conservative policy initiatives and he left office in 1977 as one of the most beloved figures in American public life.

Thanks to these conservative policy successes, the rest of the '70s was one of the high points of American and indeed, human history.

(Checks notes)

Uhh, wait a sec...

Posted by charger 2020-06-05 15:04|| 2020-06-05 15:04|| Front Page Top

#2 the rest of the '70s was one of the high points of American and indeed my life!

What I can remember.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-05 15:59|| 2020-06-05 15:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Dump the Hump!

Posted by Clem 2020-06-05 19:07|| 2020-06-05 19:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Antifa is your 21st Century Klan, you own it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-05 19:13|| 2020-06-05 19:13|| Front Page Top

#5 50 more years of control of media and education. Back then California was Republican...

Posted by Glenmore 2020-06-05 19:23|| 2020-06-05 19:23|| Front Page Top

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