"When the looting starts, the shooting starts" is originally a phrase of Miami police chief Walter Headley.— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) May 29, 2020
Headley refused to return from vacation when violent protests broke out at the RNC in 1968. "They know what to do...Wen the looting starts, the shooting starts." https://t.co/NpehNOCLNx
1/ Since y'all are all too young to remember this, and since I was only 5 at the time, there's some ancient history here to be considered.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 29, 2020
In the 1968 race, Roger Ailes told Nixon -- I'd have to look it up as to the exact date -- to pivot from Vietnam to the post-King riots.
2/ Nixon went full-on "law and order" not only as a signifier about African Americans but also about the hippy proto-Bernie Bros in Chicago.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 29, 2020
Ailes knew a secret; "law and order" was a code for race *and* for culture anxiety in 1968. The Ailes campaign DNA is wired...
Yeah, but Nixon never signed off with “Thank You!” or called so explicitly for violence to quell violence. Still, this isn’t getting better anytime soon.3/ ...deeply into Trump's brain. (And don't fool yourself; Bill Clinton leveraged it also) The language, the "Silent Majority" crap, the aggrieved culture war whining is 1968 with a modern beat.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 29, 2020
He *wants* the coverage of burning buildings. He *wants* the cops v protesters.
Well, as long as history is repeating itself...This was something that I was dreading. It happened at Ole Miss in 1962 and there are more guns out there now. https://t.co/TsEYfhkO38— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 29, 2020
“Thank you!”
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