Trump declares himself the ‘law and order’ candidate

Posted by | July 11, 2016 15:58 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


We know what “law and order” means. It had it’s origins as a political statement during the civil rights era and was often used to signal that police brutality would be acceptable to keep blacks in their place. This won’t be lost on those to whom Trump wants to appeal.

Trump’s remarks in Virginia Beach, Virginia, showed how much the Dallas violence has shaken up the political conversation with both Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton devoting time to the topic.

“We must maintain law and order at the highest level, or we will cease to have a country — 100 percent,” Trump said. “I am the law-and-order candidate.”

Trump’s remarks about safety and security were added to a speech devoted to reforming the troubled Veterans Administration. He also presented himself as a compassionate candidate and mentioned the two episodes that preceded the Dallas shootings: the killing of two African-American men by police, one in Minnesota and the other in Louisiana.

“But you can’t have true compassion without providing safety to the citizens of our country,” Trump said. “Every kid in American should be able to securely walk the streets of their own neighborhood without harm.

“We will be tough, we will be smart, we will be fair and we will protect all Americans. Without safety we have nothing,” he said.

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29 responses to Trump declares himself the ‘law and order’ candidate

  1. Buford2k11 July 11th, 2016 at 16:06

    While Palin is dehumanizing an entire group of people, This guy spewing that he is for law and order…where has this happened before?…lemme think….

  2. Suzanne McFly July 11th, 2016 at 16:29

    Screw that, he will be Judge, Jury, and Executioner. Who the hell is he kidding?

  3. Warman1138 July 11th, 2016 at 16:41

    He’s the ”everything” candidate.

    • granpa.usthai July 11th, 2016 at 23:31

      kind of reminds me of the gold colored radio mike boy that is an expert on nothing while having a solution for everything.

  4. labman57 July 11th, 2016 at 16:49

    File these chest-thumping claims in the same garbage bin where his assertions that “women, the Hispanics, and my African Americans love me” are stored.

    • granpa.usthai July 11th, 2016 at 23:29

      like the chest thumping description.

      trump is a chest thumping CONFIRMED COWARD that would let our enemies walk right in and take over while he fled to ___________ (a place he figures they won’t find him).

  5. Maxx44 July 11th, 2016 at 16:52

    Isn’t this akin to the arsonist who sets a fire, then to look like a hero tries to put it out?

    • Mike July 11th, 2016 at 20:01

      …but winds up having to call the FD because he knows nothing about firefighting…FIFY

    • granpa.usthai July 11th, 2016 at 23:26

      back in the early 80’s there was a Military recruiter that was posted in a smaller out of the way city who started finding bombs and or called in a bomb threat. Fortunately, he was trained to disarm homemade type bombs. Wasn’t until after about the 5th one, the authorities realized that most likely he was the one making them in the 1st place – big hint was they’d never had a bomb threat until after his arrival. He was caught and the local hero status was stripped from him,

  6. Jack E Raynbeau July 11th, 2016 at 17:09

    How is he going to prevent things like the Dallas shootings?

    • granpa.usthai July 11th, 2016 at 23:19

      emergency confiscation of firearms is my guess.

  7. amersham1046 July 11th, 2016 at 17:16

    More guns is neither law or order

  8. Gina Bousquet July 11th, 2016 at 17:19

    He knows how to sell his heinous candidacy to the idiotic right-wingers

    • fahvel July 12th, 2016 at 03:36

      and that is what is making the rest of the world rather uncomfortable. The idiotic right wing in the usa is yuuuuuge.

      • Gina Bousquet July 12th, 2016 at 14:54

        Hopefully smaller than Center and Left voting Democratic. We have to wait till November! :)

  9. Mike July 11th, 2016 at 19:59

    Mr Law and Order….with 3500 court suits and 9 audits in the past 10 years…

    • Larry Schmitt July 11th, 2016 at 20:15

      Of course the laws apply to everyone but him. You knew that, didn’t you, Mike?

  10. robert July 11th, 2016 at 20:07

    This is awesome stuff ! I wish he would go into detail on how he’s going to do it but trump keeps saying ” by the way ” and I don’t hear the rest ?

  11. William July 11th, 2016 at 21:25

    Ha,Ha,Ha.

    • granpa.usthai July 11th, 2016 at 23:38

      how many times has Hillary actually been to court to face criminal charges?

  12. granpa.usthai July 11th, 2016 at 23:17

    most CONFIRMED COWARDS talk like this.

    Ref: the stinky pants boy.

  13. Dwendt44 July 11th, 2016 at 23:41

    T rump seems to be copying long running Republican Rhetoric and the Nixon campaign as Dr. Maddow pointed out. Could be be talking subtly ‘police state’?

  14. bpollen July 12th, 2016 at 00:13

    Law & Order – good TV series, and what most fascists claim to be about.

    “The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might and the Republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and from without. We need law and order. Yes, without law and order our nation cannot survive. Elect us and we shall restore law and order.”

    Some little anti-Semitic German gent said that.

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