{"id":31836,"date":"2020-08-28T16:41:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31836"},"modified":"2020-08-28T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:44:12","slug":"making-george-floyds-death-meaningless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31836","title":{"rendered":"Making George Floyd&#8217;s death meaningless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched both the Republican and Democratic prime time conventions in their entirety. After watching the Republicans I was full of dread:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"507\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AmYjIsw6u7U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just finished my first Reader Column since my own protest of Pete Stauber&#8217;s campaign. I had been feeling hopeful for America but the rioters have given our Showman-in-Chief his Nixon moment. That was the topic of my column. When I finished the rough draft my wife called me over for a blast from the past courtesy of historian Michael Beschloss&#8217;s twitter feed. It was this 1968 Nixon ad.<\/p>\n<p>As I told a fellow on Facebook today I lived through Hubert Horatio Humphrey&#8217;s loss to Richard Nixon in 1968. Nixon prevailed on the strength of his criticisms of rioting. I saw the ad above many times through October. I explained that Nixon won despite having to run against George <em>&#8220;segregation today, segregation tomorrow, Segregation forever&#8221; <\/em>Wallace. Then I added: Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t have to worry about losing any votes to George Wallace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched both the Republican and Democratic prime time conventions in their entirety. After watching the Republicans I was full of dread: I just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31841,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31836\/revisions\/31841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}