While the Republican Presidential Candidate, Donald J. Trump is known for various sayings during his campaign. One of that is on the rise the concept of “law and order”. This has been mentioned not only at his rallies, but in interviews, debates, and on social media. In the most recent presidential debate Trump brought up law and order in both the race in America discussion. He frequently mentions law and order with his strong support of stop and frisk. As well as bring stop and frisk back to NY, and bringing it to Chicago as well other cities to bring them “law and order”. Law and order is brought up when race is mentioned as well when something about the current situations of crime, police brutality, discrimination, and minorities. This quote sounds strange when you hear a candidate talk about groups of people as “the blacks”, and other terms that generalize them. Even on our campus there is different voters saying they have mixed feelings about a nominee saying “I am law and order” as her said in the first presidential debate last week. With this presidential race being so polarized, the media is putting the candidates at other.In a September 11, 2016 Politico article by Same Nelson, there was a speech in Virgina Beach given by Trump that said “We must maintain law and order at the highest level or we will cease to have a country, 100 percent,” . This quote along with other quotes that praised law enforcement came only a few days after the Dallas shooting of 5 officers. While this quote happened this summer, there have been plenty more saying how Trump envisions himself as law and order, and vague descriptions of stop and frisk, blacks trusting him with presidency, favoring and praising law enforcement, and defending the 2nd amendment that have all been used to aide in Donald Trumps speeches and answers on why Law & Order is important.
Nelson, Louis. “Trump: ‘I Am the Law and Order Candidate’ Read More: Http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-law-order-candidate-225372#ixzz4M5IjX5Ff Follow Us: @politico on Twitter | Politico on Facebook.” Politico. N.p., 11 Sept. 2016. Web. 3 Oct. 2016.
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Very interesting take on Trump’s concept of Law and Order. I was not surprised to hear we had mixed campus reactions to Trump claiming he was the law and I wonder how similar the views are on a national level. I am looking forward to seeing how Trump proceeds during the next debate. How hard will he hit on this subject again?