The Law-and-Order GOP Sure Seems Confused by Law and Order

[Jilly_in_VA]

If there’s one thing Republicans hate, it’s crime.

Take their closing message in the 2022 midterms, handily summed up by this video of New York gubernatorial challenger Lee Zeldin’s fans furiously chanting “Crime! Crime! Crime!” in an apparent effort to reverse-Beetlejuice crime away.

Someone should really do something about all this crime, they demand, but not the Democrats, because Dems, as the RNC put it, simply “love crime and there’s no denying it.”

While Republicans profess to instead love law and order, it’s become increasingly unclear whether they understand how law and order even works. Judging from their steadfast defense of Donald Trump and the more luxury vacation-attracting SCOTUS justices, they seem to think bending or breaking laws is only wrong when a Democrat is rumored to have done so. Whenever any of their own are in legal jeopardy, they cloak themselves in a fog of willful ignorance and contradictions, where ideas about law and order get a lot more loosey-goosey.

Three years ago, in response to the social unrest that followed George Floyd’s murder, Trump branded himself “your president of law and order.” Cut to 2023 and the law-and-order president now finds himself facing two indictments, one of them criminal. How did sitting GOP politicians—who, it bears repeating, can’t stand crime—react to this news? By disputing the charges, sputtering rote whataboutism, and, in at least one instance, outright declaring war.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-law-and-order-gop-sure-seems-confused-by-how-law-and-order-works

Law 'n order for thee, not for me.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Just follow their orders. The law part they'll figure out later...nt

[Meadowoak]

2. It's nothing but a talking point, they don't even know what it means.

[regnaD kciN]

4. Yep..."law'norder" is simply a dogwhistle...

…for “I’ll protect you ‘normal’ people from those scary Blacks.” And has been for at least the past sixty years.

[Meadowoak]

3. It's nothing but a talking point, they don't even know what it means.

[republianmushroom]

5. No, they are not confused, they (republicans) just want what they perceive as law and order,

not what the rest of us believe what law and order is.
Example: Hillary's e-mails very unlawful (no evidence of unlawfulness),
but , trumps unlawfulness (which will be proven) is OK. Do you now understand.
There version vs your version.

29 months and counting

[frisbee7]

6. When comes to Replican'ts

Henry Kissinger of Nixon era infamy said it best, "the illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes longer."

[IronLionZion]

7. Of course, it's always for someone else

GOP is the party of crime and corruption. They project it onto Dems because GOP are the ones committing crimes and corruption.

The crime issue is nationwide and is a tough nut to crack. There are plenty of jobs and police so that's not the problem. I think it's guns and drugs.

[malaise]

8. Law 'n order for thee, not for me.

THIS

[Victor_c3]

9. If they're so good at law and order, why is the violent crime rate of red states so high?

Numerous articles and links have been posted on this forum regarding this, but 8 of 10 cities with the highest murder rates have republican mayors and red states have a 40% higher rate of violent crime than blue states.

Republicans might claim to be tougher on crime, but the data shows they aren’t more effective at combating crime than Democrats.