NIXON'S POLITICAL LEGACY
The knack, the art, of being blithely a white supremacist racist without appearing to be so to the public, is a cultural and political strategy that was perfected by Richard M. Nixon.
This Southern strategy enabled Richard Nixon's election as the President, as it did others until the election of Barack Obama in 2008.
His "Southern Strategy" enabled the Republicans to steal the South from the Southern Democrats in 1968, when Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey , a classic liberal from Minnesota . Nixon used it again in 1972 to destroy even more liberal Senator George McGovern in 1972.
Jimmy Carter of Georgia, a peanut farmer, squeaked into the White House in 1976, serving one term, before the backwash of the "Reagan Revolution" in 1980, used Nixon's Southern Strategy to rule for two terms until 1988.
Then, Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Yale Law, put on sunglasses blew a saxophone to appeal to blacks, symbolically, but whose polices were truly anti-black in essence: including "ending welfare as we know it" with cuts and regulations; massive incarceration rooted in "3-strikes" laws and increased money to the war on drugs.
Meanwhile , Bill Clinton was being deemed "the first black President" by Toni Morrison, a black novelist of Howard and now Princeton . These words she later qualified after Barack Obama's miraculous election in 2008/2012.
Even our current President, Donald Trump, has reprised the Nixon "Southern Strategy " with his own "Make America Great (white) Again, " to defeat Democrat Hilary Clinton, who herself had referred to black teenagers as black predators in a campaign speech in New Hampshire.
Nixon's legacy lives on in politics.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
NIXON'S LEGACY
NIXON'S POLITICAL LEGACY
The knack, the art, of being blithely a white supremacist racist without appearing to be so to the public, is a cultural and political strategy that was perfected by Richard M. Nixon.
This Southern strategy enabled Richard Nixon's election as the President, as it did others until the election of Barack Obama in 2008.
His "Southern Strategy" enabled the Republicans to steal the South from the Southern Democrats in 1968, when Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey , a classic liberal from Minnesota . Nixon used it again in 1972 to destroy even more liberal Senator George McGovern in 1972.
Jimmy Carter of Georgia, a peanut farmer, squeaked into the White House in 1976, serving one term, before the backwash of the "Reagan Revolution" in 1980, used Nixon's Southern Strategy to rule for two terms until 1988.
Then, Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Yale Law, put on sunglasses blew a saxophone to appeal to blacks, symbolically, but whose polices were truly anti-black in essence: including "ending welfare as we know it" with cuts and regulations; massive incarceration rooted in "3-strikes" laws and increased money to the war on drugs.
Meanwhile , Bill Clinton was being deemed "the first black President" by Toni Morrison, a black novelist of Howard and now Princeton . These words she later qualified after Barack Obama's miraculous election in 2008/2012.
Even our current President, Donald Trump, has reprised the Nixon "Southern Strategy " with his own "Make America Great (white) Again, " to defeat Democrat Hilary Clinton, who herself had referred to black teenagers as black predators in a campaign speech in New Hampshire.
Nixon's legacy lives on in politics.
