0:02 bush's campaign manager lee atwater said
0:04 by the time we're finished they're going
0:05 to wonder whether willie horton is
0:08 dukakis's running mate
0:09 liberals attacked the campaign for
0:12 perpetuating the ugly code word or dog
0:13 whistle politics of the old southern
0:15 strategy used by nixon
0:18 now today the phrase willie horton-style ad
0:18 ad
0:20 refers to political ads that blatantly
0:23 stoke racist fears and stereotypes
0:25 they usually paint their opponent as
0:27 being soft on crime and they usually work
0:27 work
0:30 as well when then-candidate donald trump
0:32 tweeted out an attack ad of louis
0:34 bracomontes a twice-deported mexican
0:36 immigrant found guilty of killing two
0:37 california police officers
0:40 critics decried his revival of the willy
0:41 horton tactic
0:43 bush's campaign manager water was an
0:45 architect of the southern strategy and
1:14 here's how i would approach that issue
1:16 as a as a statistician
1:18 or a political scientist or no as a
1:20 psychologist which i'm not
1:23 is is how abstract
1:25 you handle the race fund in other words
1:26 you start out
1:30 yeah now y'all are quoting me on this
1:33 you start out in 1954 by saying [ __ ]
1:34 [ __ ] [ __ ]
1:36 by 1968 you can't say [ __ ] that hurts
1:39 your back fire so you say stuff like
1:42 forced busing states rights and all that stuff
1:43 stuff
1:45 and you're getting so abstract now
1:46 you're talking about
1:48 cutting taxes and all of these things
1:49 you're talking about are totally
1:50 economic things
1:53 and the byproduct of them is blacks get
1:54 hurt worse
1:57 than white and subconsciously maybe that
1:58 is part of it i'm not saying that but
1:59 i'm saying
2:02 that if it is getting that abstract and
2:04 that coded uh that we
2:05 we're doing away with the racial problem
2:07 one way or the other uh
2:09 you follow me because obviously sitting
2:11 around saying uh we want to cut taxes we
2:13 want to cut this and we want
2:15 is much more abstract than even the
2:17 busing thing [Music]
2:19 [Music]
2:21 and a hell of a lot more abstract than
2:23 never knew you know
2:25 so i anyway you look at it the race is
2:31 buoyed by dog whistle-style attacks bush
2:33 won a large victory while only 48
2:35 percent of eligible voters turned out
2:37 bush won 54 percent of the votes to
2:39 dukakis's 46 percent
2:43 and the electoral college 426 to 112.
2:45 bush's election signaled americans
2:47 continued embrace of reagan's conservatism
2:48 conservatism
2:50 and further evidence the utter disarray
2:53 of the democratic party
2:55 investigations into the illegal
2:57 activities of the reagan administration
2:58 in the iran-contra scandal
3:00 including lying to congress to cover it
3:03 up had to be dealt with as well
3:05 in the end despite overwhelming evidence
3:07 of guilt president george h.w bush
3:09 pardoned the six administration
3:10 officials including former defense
3:12 secretary kasper weinberger
3:14 for their role in the scandal his
3:16 attorney general william barr who went
3:18 on to be trump's attorney general
3:20 supported the decision to not hold the
3:22 previous administration accountable
3:24 but the lead investigator considered the
3:27 pardons a serious miscarriage of justice
3:28 saying quote it demonstrates that
3:31 powerful people with powerful allies can
3:33 commit serious crimes in high office
3:35 deliberately abusing the public trust
3:37 without consequences
3:39 one of the investigators said that his
3:41 office quote had developed evidence over
3:42 the course of many years suggesting that
3:44 there had been a high level conspiracy
3:47 to obstruct the investigation
3:49 designed to protect first president
3:50 reagan and then vice president and
3:52 ultimately president bush
3:54 much like ford's pardon of nixon
3:56 historians have become very critical of
3:58 these pardons as they continue to suggest
3:58 suggest
4:00 that presidential administrations who
4:02 deliberately broke the law would not be held
4:02 held
4:05 accountable the very actions that
4:07 brought the nixon administration down
4:09 were tolerated and even rewarded
4:15 and there we have it here are our
4:17 focused questions explain supply side
4:19 economics what does that mean
4:20 what was the purpose of reagan's famous
4:22 address at the brandenburg gate that we watched
4:22 watched
4:24 what was the iran contra scandal you
4:26 should be able to briefly summarize
4:28 what was done that was illegal there who
4:30 was getting what out of it
4:31 and why did much of the nation not even
4:34 want to address the hiv aids crisis
4:36 you can answer those things and you've
4:37 basically got the gist of lecture hit
4:38 the next button at the bottom of the
4:40 page and take the reagan revolution
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