George C. Wallace, Governor of Alabama
"The nation’s cities were in flames amid protests against racial injustice and the fiery presidential candidate vowed to use force. He would authorize the police to 'knock somebody in the head' and 'call out 30,000 troops and equip them with two-foot-long bayonets and station them every few feet apart.' The moment was 1968 and the 'law and order' candidate was George C. Wallace, the former governor of Alabama running on a third-party ticket. Fifty-two years later, in another moment of social unrest, the 'law and order' candidate is already in the Oval Office and the politics of division and race ring through the generations as President Trump tries to do what Wallace could not. ..."
NY Times (Video)
Mr. Trump after security forces cleared protesters from Lafayette Square on June 1. The president has recently portrayed the nation’s cities as hotbeds of chaos.
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