Opinion by Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman: The right's “tough on crime” politics takes a vile turn.
as “the Subway Samaritan.” This, of course, is an allusion to the biblical Samaritan who aids a traveler who had been robbed and beaten; the tale doesn’t involve putting the perp in a chokehold until he dies.To Tanenhaus, all this is a continuation of — but also a departure from — the history of GOP “tough on crime” politics.
This continued through Richard M. Nixon’s “law and order” presidential campaigns and Ronald Reagan’s use of tropes like the “,” Tanenhaus notes. Trump’s 2016 presidential candidacy was consciously modeled on Nixon’s efforts to win over northern Whites disaffected by images, if not experiences, of urban disorder.
That sort of politics long blamed disorder on liberal elites who supposedly restrained law enforcement. But the Trump era has added a more open lionization of violent vigilantes who are supplanting law enforcement as the way to restore “order” and are victimized by law enforcement in retaliation for doing that.“The vigilante as the lone hero victimized by the Soros conspiracy — we’re in a new place,” Tanenhaus said.
The right in recent years has repeatedly portrayed vigilantes as heroic, and victims as deserving of death. Fox News valorized Edward Gallagher, the Navy SEAL
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