While I've got the Vice President here, let's have a little history lesson about the dog-whistle that is the phrase "law and order." When people in positions of power spout the phrase "law and order" you can be pretty confident that they are white-supremacists. 1/ https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1266425862502653964

In the history of the United States, the phrase "law and order" rose to major prominence during Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign to appeal to white voters who were angry about integration and the riots and protests that broke out as a result of MLK's assassination. 2/

"Law and order" is one of those buzzy phrases that folks will insist are two words joined together with literal definitions. But no. Etymology matters.

Nixon is quoted years later underlining "It’s all about law and order and the damn Negro-Puerto Rican groups out there.” 3/

Nixon isn't anyone's political darling, so let's talk Reagan. Ronald Reagan and California Republicans were using the same phrase with the same intent before Nixon's '68 campaign.

Where had Reagan heard that phrase before? From the 1953 film, he starred in. 4/

It's well documented how insanely racist Reagan was, but just to throw in some white-supremacist flair, here's Reagan on the phone with Nixon in '71. Oh, how they laugh! 5/

Let's back up and talk Goldwater and The Southern Strategy.

This bigot ran on his vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He won five Deep South states, his home state of Arizona, and that's it. 6/

The GOP realizing that they needed to do more subtle racist appeals to win, ran Nixon with coded-racism four years later.

The “silent majority” of white Southerners that the candidate needed to attract knew that Nixon’s call for “law and order” was the same as Goldwater's. 7/

And that's pretty much why The South is still considered Republican territory. Because the GOP continues to run candidates in that area of the country that do coded-appeals to folks who are racist! 8/

The next time you hear someone say "law and order" perk your ears up and remember that that phrase has a long history of racism, hatred, and bigotry attached to it.

They don't want peace, they want white supremacy. 9/9