To reinforce Dana's point about the excerpt from Nixonland on the main site, the idea that Republicans have been running Nixon's 1972 campaign for 35 years isn't some lefty polemic -- even conservatives basically admit it: From a review of David Frum's new book I wrote a little while back:
[Frum writes that] “Republicans have been reprising Nixon's 1972 campaign against McGovern for a third of century,” but that it won't work any more. Fewer Americans get off on beating up on hippies these days and Republicans aren't doing as well as they used to. Frum asks “how many more elections can conservatives win by campaigning against Abbie Hoffman and Bobby Seale?”
Frum thinks the answer is not that many, though he does want to extend the life of hippie-beating as a viable political strategy by excluding as many non-white people from citizenship as possible in order to extend the political dominance of the white working class.
--Sam Boyd
