Thank you. Here's an excerpt. The entire article is well worth reading.
In July 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and, in 1965, the Voting Rights Act. What followed were the presidential runs of Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater and Alabama's Gov. George Wallace, the latter of whom stood in a doorway at the University of Alabama in 1963 to block the entry of black students Vivian Malone and James Hood. Wallace was a pro-segregationist whose slogan was "Stand up for America."
The Ku Klux Klan endorsed Goldwater and appeared outside the 1964 Republican National Convention to show it. Unlike Donald Trump, who fumbled on outright repudiation of the group, Goldwater denounced the KKK. But what he didn't denounce were the key elements of what would become the Southern strategy: states' rights, resistance to "federal overreach" and "law and order."
Trump has played a direct role in the Obama pushback. On April 7, 2011, the business mogul appeared on every major morning talk show repeating the big lie that Obama's Kenyan grandmother verified that Obama was born in Kenya. It was all bull. Since then, Trump has upped the ante, going from Birther critic to candidate, running to succeed the first black president.
Back during the Nixon administration, White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman wrote that Nixon "emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognized this while not appearing to." Trump has done away with the "not appearing to" part. His vow against political correctness is followed by declarations to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. and plans to mobilize a "deportation force." Trump knows to whom he's talking, which is why he didn't initially disavow David Duke and the KKK on Feb. 28. Trump is the backlash against President Barack Obama.
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