Nixon was a law-and-order president who weaponized federal agencies against political enemies, escalated a war he inherited, used moral panic to consolidate power, and ran a domestic drug policy built more on politics than pharmacology. He resigned in disgrace. Trump in his second term is operating in an eerily similar register. The rhetoric around drugs — fentanyl, the border, cartel activity — has been maximalist and deliberately inflammatory.
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