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" In 1968, George Wallace ran for president again, this time not merely against civil rights, but against the antiwar movement as well. He appealed to the “average man in the street, this man in the textile mill, this man in the steel mill, this barber, this beautician, the policeman on the beat.” And he delighted his blue-collar crowds by taunting the student left. “If any demonstrator lies down in front of my car when I’m President,” he vowed, “that’ll be the last car he lays down in front of. "

Peter Beinart , The Good Fight: Why Liberals - and Only Liberals - Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again


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Peter Beinart quote : In 1968, George Wallace ran for president again, this time not merely against civil rights, but against the antiwar movement as well. He appealed to the “average man in the street, this man in the textile mill, this man in the steel mill, this barber, this beautician, the policeman on the beat.” And he delighted his blue-collar crowds by taunting the student left. “If any demonstrator lies down in front of my car when I’m President,” he vowed, “that’ll be the last car he lays down in front of.