A Look At Their Pasts & Who Will Make the Future -- Trump's People or Biden and The People

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The crime bill of 26 years ago -- the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act -- was a product of its time, when Clinton oversaw the nation’s longest peacetime economic expansion since the Eisenhower era. The Black Caucus in the days of Clinton clamored for the crime bill, including former Panther Bobby Rush.

What was then the biggest bipartisan spending bill on law and order, now gets revised by the Republican line that Biden "spearheaded" and is solely to blame for what was actually Clinton's push to be as "tough on crime" as the Gingrich Republicans, Republicans who started "their way or the highway" politics -- the racist Willie Horton fearmonger politics they now veil today with nazis, militias and Cuban ethnic racists. The old playbook: fear of a black planet.

Today, the Republicans cast themselves and Trump as the only hope to save this country from "falling apart in anarchy and anger in a radical Democratic state of America" that will leave no one standing. The old playbook: Democrats will always be weak on ____, and Republicans will always be strong.

Michelle Alexander lays out the most accurate history of the Clinton Crime Bill and its time in The New Jim Crow. Republicans need to read it.

The Old playbook: never apologize, never regret. Drive the playbook and back the boss.

In days ahead, they will cast Democrats in general as the old playbook "takers," "debt makers" and "tear-downers" because Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi with her spending demands for all those radical socialists that don't want to work.

Today's language veils the old Republican political playbook. Which deserves a harder look.

The campaign isn't about Biden and Trump. It's about their comparative achievements, their party package, their world view, the people they bring with them.

There are playbook lines. We ought to list them. It's a history lesson playing out in the next 70 days.