According to Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, culpability for horrendous murder rates in Chicago lies with.....President Nixon, who of course died about 30 years ago in 1994. Although I suppose some of Nixon's policies might have something to do with crime rates today, I'd dare suggest that governmental actions of the past 50 years, starting with Chicago's longtime discrimination against gun rights and continuing to poor policing, might have a bit more to do with it.
Perhaps even more amusingly, Johnson extols the record of Lyndon Johnson, who during his first 20 years as a lawmaker (1937-1957) opposed every civil rights bill brought to his attention, enacted the "Great Society" laws that to this day are the bane of poor people of all races, and who of course got the country deeply into the Vietnam War, prematurely ending the lives of about 7000 black soldiers and maiming tens of thousands more.
Nixon, on the other hand, was a staunch supporter of civil rights throughout his career. One might wonder whether certain portions of the progressive left are in fact trying to injure those they claim to be trying to help.
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