Subterms
Riots helped elect Nixon in 1968. Can Trump benefit from fear and loathing too? Protesters take to the streets of Brooklyn, New York, demanding an end to police brutality and systemic racism after the death of George Floyd, on 5 June. Photograph: Ashley Gilbertson/VII/Redux/eyevine Trump has echoed Nixon by casting himself as a ‘law and […] More
Trump reaches for Nixon playbook after protests that have rocked America Donald Trump walks between lines of riot police on his way for a photo opportunity with a Bible outside St John’s church in Washington on Monday. Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters Styling himself as the ‘law and order’ candidate, as Nixon did in 1968, is a […] More
After Watergate, we worked for impartiality. Trump, Roger Stone and William Barr have dragged us back to the swamp “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sometimes rhymes,” Mark Twain is supposed to have said. My first job after law school was as an attorney at the Department of Justice (DoJ). I reported for work September […] More
