Lexington | Far worse than Nixon

摘要

MANY HAVE compared the protests and violence that have con-sumed America to the conflagration of 1968, which saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy and race riots in many cities. None has done so more enthusiastically than Donald Trump. As the demonstrations against George Floyd's asphyxiation began to boil in Minneapolis, the president warned that any looters would be shot, using a phrase synonymous with the violence of half a century ago. Emerging from his White House bunker he declared, "I am your president of law and order," an echo of Richard Nixon campaigning for election that year, "silent majority!" Mr Trump tweeted in a reference to Nixon's success-and his hopes of emulating it in November. Could the riots help him do so?