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Riots Will Re-Elect Donald Trump
Want to see a stampede to the political party promising law and order? Historically, the world over, violence makes voters more conservative.
“Good!” — U.S. President Richard Nixon, on the news that violence was expected to erupt during college campus demonstrations in 1969.
The tragedy of the George Floyd case is something that will live in American infamy, probably forever. The terrifying image of George Floyd on the ground, the policeman kneeling on Floyd’s neck, the videos of him begging for his life, will haunt us in the years to come.
Whatever the trial of the police officers involved reveals, whatever justice the defendants receive, it will not restore life to George Floyd. It will not restore George Floyd to his family or his young daughter. Nor will it restore the lives of the thousands of other people who have tragically been killed in incidents like these.
The violent protests, still ongoing, which have followed the killing of George Floyd will also live on in people’s minds in the years to come.
In the days after four LA police officers who were filmed brutally beating Los Angeleno Rodney King were acquitted, when violent protests raged through LA and in other cities, the U.S. had an…