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In reply to the discussion: "Law and Order" is a losing strategy for Trump. [View all]customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I mean, Kent State happened in 1970, and there were all kinds of anti-war protests going on that became conflated with earlier rioting in urban areas.
And I don't remember the economy being all that strong at the time, but will certainly acknowledge that it got worse with the first OPEC cutoffs of oil in 1973.
Yes, there was the trip to China, but not everybody viewed that in a favorable light. Seeing what China's been like lately, they were prescient. And if you think George McGovern was a weak opponent, then you don't know that he had a solid military record during WWII. He had massive crowds show up at his rallies, I was there for one of them in Portland, Oregon. Frankly, I find McGovern a much more exciting candidate on his worst day than Joe Biden's shown us he can be so far. And Nixon was considered as evil as Trump is today.
Nixon played that "silent majority" theme like a fiddle, and Trump is reading from the same playbook.