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Liberals, Flamm ( 2005 ) argues, were unable to craft a compelling message for anxious voters.

Instead, liberals either ignored the crime crisis, claimed that law and order was a racist ruse, or maintained that social programs would solve the " root causes " of civil disorder, which by 1968 seemed increasingly unlikely and contributed to a loss of faith in the ability of the government to do what it was above all sworn to do — protect personal security and private property.

Conservatives rejected the liberal notions.

" How long are we going to abdicate law and order " House GOP leader Gerald Ford demanded in 1966, " in favor of a soft social theory that the man who heaves a brick through your window or tosses a firebomb into your car is simply the misunderstood and underprivileged product of a broken home?