Racism has been good to the Republican Party from Nixon's "law and order" campaigns through Reagan's "welfare queens," Bush's "Willie Horton," and the overt racist attacks on Barack Obama. So be prepared.
I owe the idea of this post to Ed Kilgore at the Washington Monthly who wrote a post titled "Is Trump Signaling a Racial Backlash?"
Kilgore quotes Donald Trump on BLM in an interview on Meet the Press:
DONALD TRUMP:
It’s a massive crisis. It’s a double crisis. What’s happening and people. You know, I look at things. And I see it on television. And some horrible mistakes are made. At the same time, we have to give power back to the police because crime is rampant. And I’m a big person that believes in very big— you know, we need police.
And we need protection. Look, I look at some of the cities. You look at Baltimore. You look at so many different places in this country. Chicago. Certain areas of Chicago. They need strong police protection. And those police can do the job. But their jobs are being taken away from them. At the same time, you’ve got these other problems. And there’s no question about it. They are problems. There is turmoil in our country.
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But at the same time, we have to give power back to the police because we have to have law and order….
We have to give strength and power back to the police. And you’re always going to have mistakes made. And you’re always going to have bad apples. But you can’t let that stop the fact that police have to regain some control of this tremendous crime wave and killing wave that’s happening in this country.
Trump supports the Thin Blue Line that protects white supremacy.
Seen it all before. Support your local Police. Blah, blah, blah.
Get ready because here it comes. It's going to be nasty and mean.