. @realDonaldTrump's "suburban housewife" tweet channels GOP campaign doctrine from the early 1970s. A 1970 Nixon White House memo quoted Scammon and Wattenberg's "The Real Majority." /1/
"To know that the lady in Dayton is afraid to walk the
streets alone at night, to know that she has a mixed view
about blacks and civil rights because before moving to the suburbs she lived in a neighborhood that became all black,"/2/
"to know that her brother-in-law is a policeman, to know that she does not have the money to move if her new neighborhood deteriorates, to know that she is deeply distressed that her son is going to a community college where LSD was found on the campus, " - /3/
"to know all this is the beginning of contemporary
political wisdom. " Trump never read the book, of course, but he absorbed the ideas that were in the air. /4/ https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/virtuallibrary/documents/contested/contested_box_48/Contested-48-30.pdf
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