The LA protests and why it’s not the same as the sixties, and Trump and Miller are not Nixon. This is different and the lessons are not those we learned from the anti-war movement and Democratic disarray that proelled Nixon to the White House and back in 72 🧵 - ThreadSky

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garvanwalshe.org • 10 days ago

The LA protests and why it’s not the same as the sixties, and Trump and Miller are not Nixon.

This is different and the lessons are not those we learned from the anti-war movement and Democratic disarray that proelled Nixon to the White House and back in 72

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garvanwalshe.org•10 days ago

2/ Rick Perlstein’s masterful Nixonland describes how Nixon used fear of disorder chaos and hippies to bring enough of the people behind him during America’s turbulent 1960s

garvanwalshe.org•10 days ago

3/This was the time of the anti-Vietnam war protests, the consequences of the Civil Rights movement for the Jim-Crow south and a staffer called Roger Ailes

garvanwalshe.org•10 days ago

4/ The change left many people scared for the future: not only white supremacists now required to send their kids to schools with black people but also what Perlstein called “the squares”

garvanwalshe.org•10 days ago

5/ The squares were people interested in order who wanted to get on with their usual lives. The centres of culture in New York and LA looked down on them. They would vote for Nixon, and Reagan and the Bushes

garvanwalshe.org•10 days ago

6/ Ailes would go on to create a TV station that would tap into those anxieties. It grew from strength to strength on the new Cable TV. It did news, and was part of the Fox network.

garvanwalshe.org•10 days ago

7/ But there came a point - probably in the 1990s with Gingrich when the script began to flip: this “conservatism” didn’t want order, it wanted revolution.

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