I don’t think this is a shift in Republican rhetoric at all. Think about their panic over “the border.” What law and order has always meant to them is “a police state for brown people, free rein for the white propertied class”. It’s just that Trump’s own way of speaking and behaving makes it clearer that the latter really does extend even to violence—which is why his base is so devoted to him.
I don’t think this is a shift in Republican rhetoric at all. Think about their panic over “the border.” What law and order has always meant to them is “a police state for brown people, free rein for the white propertied class”. It’s just that Trump’s own way of speaking and behaving makes it clearer that the latter really does extend even to violence—which is why his base is so devoted to him.
I don’t think this is a shift in Republican rhetoric at all. Think about their panic over “the border.” What law and order has always meant to them is “a police state for brown people, free rein for the white propertied class”. It’s just that Trump’s own way of speaking and behaving makes it clearer that the latter really does extend even to violence—which is why his base is so devoted to him.