Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Donald Trump Is No Richard Nixon

Rhetoric aside, the current president has nowhere near the accomplishments his predecessor campaigned on.

June 3, 2020 at 11:30 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

Not just “law and order.”
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Comparisons with 1968 have been on my mind as unrest has spread over the past week, perhaps because President Donald Trump is embracing Richard Nixon so explicitly in his response; not only is he talking about “law and order” these days but he also tweeted out the exclamation “SILENT MAJORITY!” (yes, in all caps) without any other context on Tuesday, presumably for the handful of us familiar with it as a Nixon-era phrase.