… White backlash against rising racial tensions and urban violence in the 1960s was considered a boon to the Republican Party in general and to Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign to restore law and order in particular. Trump echoed those earlier campaigns in calling for “law and order” after the Dallas police shootings, and some have suggested that he may benefit as Nixon did from the growing racial divide.
But there are a number of reasons why rising racial tensions are unlikely to help Trump’s campaign. CONT.
Michael Tesler (UC Irvine), The Monkey Cage