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    Jonah Goldberg: Trump unlikely to repeat Nixon’s 1968 success

    by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency Jun 04, 2020 3 minutes

    Historical analogies are sometimes interesting and occasionally illuminating, but often they’re a substitute for thinking seriously about what’s going on in front of you.

    For instance, around the time President Trump started tweeting “LAW & ORDER!” at seemingly random intervals, a slew of political observers concluded that the Trump White House was going to replay Richard Nixon’s successful 1968 bid for the presidency. “Law and Order” was indeed one of Nixon’s campaign themes, though the

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