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