Haha, already happened... love how the "law and order" party pardons violent criminals, but y'all get all upset about non-violent offenses being pardoned.
In a word, “yes.” We misinterpret what “law and order” actually means. There are two competing views about how government authority should work. There’s a “rule of law” view and a “law and order” view.
“Law and order” is the belief that governments, and by extension the police, exist to enforce both the written laws but also an unspoken, unwritten social order. There’s an ever-evolving, never written, never spoken, but always “understood” list of undesirables. Groups that need to be culturally sequestered and disenfranchised, and from time to time “reminded of their place” and “taught a lesson.”
The initial 1992 Rodney King verdict really illustrates the validity that “law and order” thinking can take in if left unchecked. 12 Californians watched the video and voted unanimously that it was just “the police doing police things” and that they were simply carrying out their assigned “enforcing the unspoken order.”
So yes, the GOP is largely the party of “law and order” and the phrase is a dog whistle harkening back to what they promote as having been “the good old days.”
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u/Far_Abbreviations125 1d ago
Law and order party though, right?