@ana_safavi asked: Why is the left now siding with law enforcement and the right trying to destroy law enforcement? ⤵️
What changed is the focus of law enforcement.
100 years ago, all-white police forces mostly put black men in jail.
The law of coverture gave men legal dominance over women. library.hbs.edu/hc/wes/collect…
Before the New Deal & Civil Rights legislation [white] men could pretty much do whatever they wanted.
Before modern rape & sexual harassment laws, they could grab women ⤵️
Before regulatory agencies, they could manipulate markets, fix prices, launder money, and pollute rivers.
MAGA means take us back to those days.
Before minimum wage and the 40 hour workweek, working people had no way to break out of poverty.
The New Deal changed that by setting up regulatory agencies to stop the cheating and price fixing that kept the rich rich and the poor poor.
They didn't like it.
“Conservatives” have been trying to dismantle tho regulatory agencies, targeting social security, for example.
The women’s rights and Civil Rights movements sent conservatives into a panic.
This law review article explains that Nixon and Reagan’s Tough on Crime policy was a “backlash against the Civil Rights Movement.”
scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewconten
Hippies smoking pot! Black people demanding compensation for centuries of injustice!
“The whole problem is really the blacks,” said Haldeman. . .
The difference between Trump and previous GOP leadership is that Trump has made the subtext text.
Trump calls it what it is: White supremacy.
This is has many Republicans rattled.
Trump campaigned on a promise to destroy the “deep state," meaning laws and agencies that curtail [white] men's "liberty"
nationalreview.com/2019/03/deep-s…
In 1980, Libertarian Party VP candidate, David Koch advocated abolishing the FBI, CIA, and IRS.
nytimes.com/1984/10/16/art…
You can dismantle the agencies slowly.
Or you can bring in a human wrecking ball.
Trump is a human wrecking ball.
Barr and Trump's other pals are openly (and gleefully) destroying the agencies they hate.
"What!?" you say.
See
Trump is making it hard for them to close their eyes to Trump's Ukraine's scandal . . .
Trump's brazenness has GOP leaders stumped.
Some see it as a virtue: No dishonest hiding of motives. Notice the use of "integrity" here:
They like what he’s doing.
They're uncomfortable with how he’s doing it.
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I have a teenager, so mostly I'm used to eye-rolls when I speak 😉
When the subtext becomes text, people are forced to decide.
But the leadership followed Haldeman's advice and obscured their real purpose: Return to the oligarchy of the 1920s when relatively few families held disproportionate power.
Trump gives the working class part of his base what they want more than economic advancement: A fight against their "enemies"
Those who embrace far right wing politics usually. . .
They think human society also forms a hierarchy.
Trump (and the Confederacy) kept minorities in their place from a belief that white men belong at the top of the hierarchy.
Trump rally ⤵️h/t @KevinMcFromTX
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