As many of you know, Donald Trump was elected as the new 2016 President Tuesday night, November 8th or should I say early morning Wednesday. His concession speech was actually written very well and stated exactly what the American people needed to hear, “It is time. I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be President for all of Americans, and this is so important to me…I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country.” He needed to bring the American people together of all backgrounds together and unify the country. But do all American people feel unified and able to accept the election results?

The Sun reports,“Police said at least 500 people swarmed on streets in and around UCLA, some shouting ‘f**k Trump’ and others chanting “Not my president!” It was even reported that people from downtown Portland were burning an American Flag.

Anti-Trump rallies were also happening in downtown Athens, GA. A UGA student stated: “I’m just here to stand up for who I am as a person just because Trump has degraded females, hispanics and immigrants and I fall into all three of those categories among many other categories of people that he’s degraded who I would like to stand up for,”

With all of these rallies happening, how will Trump use  his “law and order” rhetoric to protect the police and stop them? Will he give more power to the police in such cases like these? It will be interesting to find out as time will tell.

 

Throughout the presidential election, Donald Trump has continued to use “law and order” as a tactic to achieve voters. He has uses this rhetoric mainly with the issue of police brutality but also has squeezed it into Hilary Clinton’s email scandal.  Trump has continued to say that he will “Make America Safe Again” and that if elected president, he will have Hillary put in jail. Trump is channeling the law and order rhetoric into the viewer’s mind that if Hillary were to be elected, then America will not be safe and “put our national security at risk.

“The “October Surprise” was released last Friday stating that:

“FBI Director James Comey notified congressional leaders that the agency had discovered more emails as part of its probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email system. The emails were discovered as part of an investigation into former Congress member Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Abedin reportedly stored hundreds of thousands of emails on Weiner’s computer, which was seized by the FBI after Weiner allegedly sent illicit text messages to a 15-year-old girl.”

Trump certainty welcomed this information on his campaign trail and used it to his advantage. He recently displayed a nasty commercial sourcing from the FBI’s email announcement about “Crooked Hilary” which he refers to her as on Twitter.

Trump is now back on the FBI fan train because they are in favor of him and anti-Hillary. These emails have now created more controversy not only with Hillary but also with the FBI director, James Comey. Was it morally right for him to release this information just 11 days before the general election when it could have been a private matter? If the roles were reversed and information was released about Trump, he would be using “law and order” to say that the FBI is corrupt and out to get him but instead he gladly kept his mouth shut and used the information to his advantage.

According to a former FBI official, “There are lots of people who don’t think Trump is qualified, but also believe Clinton is corrupt…What you hear a lot is that it’s a bad choice, between an incompetent and a corrupt politician.” Has Trump done a good enough job at deflecting his unpredictable and unqualified persona onto the corrupt Hillary? Is this “October Surprise” enough to change last minute voter’s mind? We will see next week after the winner is revealed.

 

Throughout the election process, Trump has continued to return to the idea of bringing back law and order to gain support…but… is this style actually gaining support? Minorities tend to think not. In today’s society, minorities are a large percentage of voters and could potentially swing the outcome. Trump is in need of these voters and hasn’t done a great job at obtaining them especially in the law and order area by “bring back respect to the police.”

For example, the “Central Park 5” who were black and Latino men wrongfully imprisoned for brutally attacking and raping a 28- year-old women in Central Park, are voicing their opinion about Trump’s rhetoric of law and order. Yusef Salaam, a member of the Central Park 5, tells the Washington Post that they were “being deprived of food, drink, or sleep for more than 24 hours.” In 1989, Donald Trump spent “$85,000 on a full-page ad in four newspapers across the city of New York, which read ‘Bring Back The Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police,” and to this day he stands by his words. Salaam also writes, “Black people across America know that because of the color of our skin, we are guilty before proven innocent.” Since Trump stands by his claim, even though they were proven innocent, adds to the fact that Trump’s campaign is bias, racist, and shows that he is unable to admit he is wrong. His rhetoric of law and order is losing minority voters because of police brutality. Should violent punishment really be what America needs? Not to the minorities and they certainly won’t be voting for Trump.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/trumps-law-and-order-rhetoric-just-got-annihilated-by-a-member-of-the-central-park-5/

Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump, made a very controversial comment during the second presidential debate on Sunday, October 8^th.  After Hilary Clinton stated that it was a good thing Trump is not in charge of the law. Trump’s response was, “Because you’d be in jail.” He said he would “instruct his attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton’s use of private email server while she was secretary of state.” This shocking response weakens Trump’s chance of winning in two different ways. One, it gives another reason why middle aged women will not vote for him and two, if Trump is elected president, it questions if he will abuse his power.

Do we really want a president who will waste time on something that will not even matter after the election? Trump is said to have too big of an ego and because of this, it does not make him a good fit to be president. His comment only makes this argument stronger. After countless of investigations before and during the election and finding Clinton not guilty, what would be the point of Trump digging even more if he were elected? Jus to prove that he was right? The president has better things to attend to like, running the country, instead of looking into pasts that are irrelevant now. This comment only solidifies voters who are anti-Trump because of his ego and persuades undecided voters that he is not fit for the job because he is unstable and quick to make an irrational decision. Trump is just beating a dead horse with the emails and is not doing a very good job proving that Hilary is untruthful in other areas but he is doing a very good job in proving that he is unstable. The running is not looking good for good ole Donald Trump.

 

Donald Trump hit the ground running at the Republican National Convention playing off his slogan, “Make America Great Again,” to “Make Our Country Safe Again.” This new slogan then generates a question in the audience’s mind of when was America not safe, what happened, and when did it change? Yes there have been tragedies in Baton Rouge and Dallas but if you look back at history, crime and violence has been pretty steady throughout time. So if this is the case, then why is Trump making an outburst for “law and order?”

The answer is simple, even though crime is relatively low right now; Trump is channeling the issue of crime to represent other worries that the American people might have. He did not think of this tactic on his own, but rather channeling the tactics that Nixon has once used. Trump is reusing Nixon’s tactics similar to the “Silent Majority.” Silent majority is an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their public opinion. United States President Richard Nixon popularized the silent majority in 1969 speech when he stated, “And so tonight—to you the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for you support.” As Nixon was running for president, he was dealing with issues of anti-war protests, violent, and difficult social and cultures more. He channeled the issue of crime to represent these other worries that people might have. When Trump promises to make America “safe again,” he is using crime to represent other anxieties Americans have such as “immigration and pluralism, regional economic stagnation, and international unrest.” It will be hard to convince the American people of something that doesn’t particularly occur but only a business sales man can do the job.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/donald-trump-law-and-order-richard-nixon-crime-race-214066