Trump’s Phrase “Law and Order” is Racist

Nixon made it that way

Richard Nixon, pointing fingers. (Whitier Museum)

Donald Trump has taken a lot from Richard Nixon’s presidential playbook — things like lying, obfuscating, stonewalling, jawboning, and press-bashing, to name a few. It’s no surprise, then, that he has also taken Nixon’s signature euphemism for politically institutionalized racism — “Law and Order.”