presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden during an appearance in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sept.

Like many Americans, Joe Biden scoffs at Donald Trump’s pretensions to be the “law and order” choice on November’s ballot?

Rather, the law often went wherever the rights-bearing people – the white settlers – decided to go.

From the coasts of South Carolina to the mountains of Tennessee, white Americans felt threatened, surrounded, and thus entitled to inflict rather than obey the law.

Trump promises to defend the (mostly white) suburbs from the (disproportionately Black) cities and cheers gun-toting vigilantes against multiracial protesters, he’s appealing to a powerful sense of law and order.

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