Instead, Trump seemed to be channeling Richard Nixon circa 1968, the height of Vietnam and civil rights protests, filling his Twitter feed with phrases famous from the Nixon lexicon like “LAW & ORDER” and “SILENT MAJORITY.” With his talk of “shooting” looters and turning “vicious dogs” and “ominous weapons” on “thugs” in the street, Trump arguably went beyond Nixon to emulate the segregationist George Wallace’s even more bellicose campaign that year.
