Social unrest? Yes, Meister, I'm guessing Lichtman was referring to Vietnam/civil rights-era levels of unrest. That's what did LBJ in.
Nixon campaigned on social unrest. The unrest amplified over his time in office to the stage where the White House was under constant siege by protesters and police.
The George Floyd riots were over in a few days, totally separate to BLM protests - no deaths or violence at any of the marches held around the world, excluding those that faced counter-protests and attacks by white nationalists.
Aside from the odd community reaction to police killing blacks, the only civil violence in recent times has been protests over Gaza, confined to college campuses. You've gotta love Trump's cynical response to that, promising to send in the military when he knows from his experience in Portland how unconstitutional that would be. Remember when he threatened to send the military in to guard a sole federal building?
Social unrest during Biden's time in office pales in comparison to the far-right violence of the Trump era. Check it out:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_the_United_...Much of that unrest was directly inflamed by the words of the president himself. One was organized by his own team and incited by the president's own instructions - an attack ruled to have caused the deaths of six people; the first invasion of the US Capitol since the War of 1812.
Nobody does social unrest better than Trump, and all Karmala has to do is remind the voters. It's easy to forget that Trump mobilized his unrest at the peak of a global pandemic, well before vaccines had been rolled out, when health officials were desperately trying to keep gatherings to a minimum.
The death toll of Jan 6 excludes deaths caused by covid, at its deadliest at the time, with over 40,000 deaths a week. Not only did Trump rally protesters against the advice of his own health officials, he discouraged social distancing and the wearing of masks.
Imagine, leaders like Boris Johnson were exposed for failing to follow their own covid regulations. Johnson was brought down for hosting a staff birthday party in his office.
Trump, by contrast, mobilized thousands of maskless protesters and told them to march to the Capitol, where government employees, congresspeople and senators were following strict instructions to prevent infecting the nation's lawmakers.
Social unrest hardly captures what Trump did on Jan 6, Meister, but now he's running again. No wonder he's refusing to debate his political opponent. In any other country, he'd be safely locked away - for social unrest.
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