Over the past couple weeks I have been making my way through Nixonland by Rick Perlstein. It is a well-researched volume and takes time to wade through, but I am loving each page. As I am now at the time of the race riots in the 196o’s, and the calculated use of that issue by Republicans for partisan gain, comes the real-time turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri.
And would you believe that once again the old-style racial thinking of using the ‘silent majority’ is being promoted for political purposes?
Via Nixonian Politics Used In Ferguson, Missouri Racial Problems @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS.