" The silent majority: 'No one's looking out for the white guy anymore' Energizing the Trump movement are voters who call themselves the "silent majority.
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Call 'em the silent majority, the silent number or whatever.
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Trump spoke to those people, "the silent majority" as he calls them.
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To kids like me, he was the sound of the silent majority.
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Pop stars may have stan armies, but rappers have the silent majority.
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Fortunately, the silent majority of the conservative-leaning justice supporters won out.
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They, not the 60m who voted for Mr Trump, are the silent majority.
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However, Nixon's political focus on white voters, the "Silent Majority," is well-known.
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He is trying to re-muzzle the silent majority that he disagrees with.
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And all along, we thought the "silent majority" was just a Republican phenomenon.
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Trump voters took to calling themselves the "silent majority" on the campaign trail.
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The sooner the silent majority of MPs makes the most of this, the better.
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Health Minister Miloslav Ludvik said the ban would open restaurants to the "silent majority".
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The silent majority appears to have been interested in what 'Ye' was all about.
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"The silent majority is starting to get annoyed with what's going on," Sorbo continued.
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The silent majority has touched my face, done my makeup, watches "Gilmore Girls" religiously.
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"The silent majority is back," Trump said, identifying his voters precisely as Nixon did.
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The unspoken message from the silent majority is crystal clear: We are not welcome here.
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It was the first time that the silent majority opposed to independence found its voice.
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They were, as Nixon memorably described them, the "silent majority," a phrase Trump recently appropriated.
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" Mr. Lassiter is the author of "The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South.
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There has been too much of the 'silent majority' — at both ends of the generation gap.
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WHEN THE "silent majority" found its voice, it did not use it as the authorities hoped.
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The "silent majority" turns out to back the protesters' cause, despite the violent tactics of some.
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And they were the silent majority in the past but now they are loud raising their voices.
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For many in the silent majority, the country seemed on the brink of widespread chaos and anarchy.
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If the real people of America, the silent majority, are going to survive, they must educate themselves.
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He watched Nixon rally the silent majority with a law-and-order message and racial dog whistling.
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And the silent majority of Americans who did not vote for Trump are not feeling especially hopeful.
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Even if your friends didn't stand with you, there's plenty of other people in the silent majority that would.
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One was Richard Nixon, whose concept of the "silent majority" was invoked to rapturous applause by the unsilent crowd.
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Sign the boycott petition to show the Red Hen that patriotic Trump supporters are the silent majority in Virginia!
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Nixon was appealing to the "silent majority" of voters uneasy about counterculture movements and the threat of nuclear war.
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"The silent majority will go out and vote and they will vote for Senator Ted Cruz," said Gina O'Briant.
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They often call themselves the "silent majority," large in number but underrepresented in the country's news media and political institutions.
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This survey suggests they are not listening to the silent majority of welcoming citizens who take the refugee crisis personally.
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" The pro-Trump rally, called the "Mother of All Rallies," or M.O.A.R, had been dubbed "Woodstock for the silent majority.
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The silent majority has seen me put on my head scarf in the morning and take it off at night.
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By occupying significant positions, they are a dangerous power, as they constitute the silent majority who shape the general consensus.
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It is more than Richard Nixon's appeal to the "silent majority" or his claim to be the "law and order" candidate.
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Private military contractors (PMC), sometimes referred to as mercenaries or guns-for-hire, are the silent majority of today's military activities.
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He spoke to the silent majority: ordinary middle-class Turks who pay their taxes and want to enlarge their bank accounts.
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I stand by my comments that we are experiencing an awakening from the silent majority—those who reject the elites & their bubble.
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"The silent majority has awakened," said Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire adviser who had caused controversy by seeming to threaten Hillary Clinton.
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I stand by my comments that we are experiencing an awakening from the silent majority — those who reject the elites & their bubble.
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We aim to provide a voice to the silent majority who oppose La Familia, and football is a very powerful tool for this.
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We are already seeing some of the "silent majority" emboldened to heckle, harass, spit on, and assault those they don't consider "real" Americans.
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"I'm hoping this will wake up the silent majority of Vermonters and get them out to vote and protect their rights," he said.
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President Richard Nixon openly courted the "silent majority," that group of Americans not protesting the Vietnam War or participating in the Civil Rights Movement.
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It will be sometime before we start giving out Congressional medals of honor to CISOs – the silent majority who protect our data every day.
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Pence is the "silent majority," the instinctively-conservative everyman who needs a larger-than-life steamroller to batter down the doors of political correctness.
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This figure includes students who take their lives due to academic pressures, but the silent majority are men and seniors who don't speak up.
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Again, this is exactly the situation -- it's far too extreme on both sides and the silent majority of America does not have a voice.
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For far too long, Big tech has gotten away with censoring the silent majority because of WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE BELIEVE IN!
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Mr Macron needs to persuade the silent majority that, far from destroying public services, his growth-boosting reforms are the best way to save them.
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I made a mental note to have him back, and then in the next segment, he joined the silent majority right there on the stage.
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Maybe I'm just one of the losers—the silent majority who lower their heads and work and have a family and stay out of trouble.
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Whatever their former appellation — Reagan Democrats, the silent majority, the Southern strategy — Joe Sixpack and Archie Bunker are now solidly in the billionaire businessman's corner.
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"They're forgetting about what they call the silent majority," said Philip Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun rights group.
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With Madrid now planning to suspend Catalonia's autonomy, others said they wanted to show support for the "silent majority" of Catalans who prefer a united Spain.
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Just as U.S. President Donald Trump offered a nod to the "silent majority" for his unexpected victory of 2016, Morrison credited "quiet Australians" for his success.
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Critics in the "silent majority" Standing in sharp contrast on the other side are members of the self-dubbed "silent majority" -- people who oppose the unrest.
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There is a certain kind of candy we've been taught to hate, even though most of us — the silent majority — desire it deeply in our bones.
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This means there is little space to discuss the issues faced by the silent majority of trans masculine people who don't conform to this narrow ideal.
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With Madrid now planning to suspend Catalonia's autonomy, others said they wanted to show support for the "silent majority" of Catalans who prefer a united Spain.
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In a 1969 speech, then-President Richard Nixon directly addressed the "silent majority" of Americans who he hoped would support his middle path policy on Vietnam.
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The populist dimensions of his candidacy suggest that linkages to popular support and invocations of the silent majority will continue to be part of the rhetorical strategy.
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That is so clear to see with situations like the refugee crisis, in which the silent majority proves that Danes are, in fact, tolerant and humane people.
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By pulling out of the Paris agreement and propping up coal, he is posing an immediate health risk to the silent majority he claims to speak for.
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And especially if the Democrats become more liberal on social/identity issues, Republicans can convince themselves that the silent majority really has to be on their side.
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Moreover, there's little reason to believe the silent majority of Americans are just waiting to be won over by one or the other party embracing milquetoast centrism.
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Buchanan's political calculus is that the "silent majority" is larger than the "fashionable minorities," who include violent antiwar protesters — nearly five bombings a day in 1971-72!
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Residents of Spain's wealthiest region, Catalonia, who want to remain Spanish and oppose the idea of an independent Catalan nation have long been called the silent majority.
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" That day he also gave a speech in which he said it was time to "stop this dictatorship of minorities that ruins the life of the silent majority.
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I believe the silent majority in Britain want Parliament to "get on with it," and then focus on all the other issues stacking up in ministers' in-trays.
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Nicknamed the "Mother of All Rallies," the pro-Trump rally is billing itself as the "Woodstock for the silent majority" and will begin at noon on the Mall.
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"It's far two extremes on both sides and the silent majority of America does not have a voice, and that's the voice I want to give," he said.
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In every crowd, there were supporters who echoed Mr. Trump's message that the polls did not reflect the "silent majority" who they said would turn out on Nov.
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" Clinton counting on quiet supporters to speak with their ballots On the trail, signs at rallies for the Republican showman declare that "the Silent Majority stands with Trump.
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Instead, he turned his attention to the "silent majority" represented by the stock traders who stood in the background of CNBC's live coverage, cheering his Tea Party oration.
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But there is also the silent majority that might pretend to like folk music but secretly hate it, associating it with forced sing-alongs at summer camp and church.
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"I want to be the spokesman of the silent majority which today says 'enough is enough'," Sarkozy tweeted after his speech to 3,000 supporters on the outskirts of Lyon.
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"She's an extremely liberated woman," Ms. DeCrow said in an interview with Carol Felsenthal for her book "The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority: The Biography of Phyllis Schlafly" (19923).
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On the other side of the spectrum, Richard M. Nixon appealed to the "silent majority," while Ronald Reagan was boosted by aggrieved working-class Americans who abandoned the Democrats.
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"The silent majority is more of a metaphor than a real group of people," Samson Yuen, an assistant politics professor at Lingnan University, told the Atlantic, following the election.
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"The silent majority is more of a metaphor than a real group of people," Samson Yuen, an assistant politics professor at Lingnan University, told the Atlantic following the election.
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Though the lack of plume had been mentioned in the past, nobody had properly galvanized the silent majority, those in search of a proper helmet plume for their beloved Ornstein.
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" Not unless a righteous sense of persecution is afoot — in which case you get upswells like the Moral Majority and the Silent Majority, blurring the line between "majority" and "supremacy.
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Wauquiez, a graduate of France's elite schools and a former minister under ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, says he is the voice of the "silent majority" and his critics have misunderstood him.
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It's unclear how many people are actually in the "silent majority," or if they really are a majority at all, but the group appears to be slowly growing -- publicly at least.
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In 1968, Richard Nixon dusted off Bernstein's "forgotten man" speech and made it the template for his appeal to the "silent majority," as Garry Wills reported in his classic Nixon Agonistes.
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It is up to the Silent Majority — the same majority that handed Trump the White House — to step up, fill in the gap, and teach the protestors an important civics lesson.
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Thomas B. Edsall Between Richard Nixon's election by the silent majority in 1968 and Donald Trump's stunning victory in 2016, there have been six conservative waves that swept Republicans into office.
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" A few readers said moderate Republicans have some good choices this primary season, but the media have ignored the sensible conservatives that should attract those Mr. Brooks described as the "silent majority.
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Like "the silent majority," another Nixonian throwback that Trump recycles from time to time, "law and order" conveyed which side you were on in the political and cultural wars of that era.
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He does not represent the "silent majority" that turned the 2016 election -- a cohort that, as much as anything else, was joined by its uniform disdain for the political and cultural establishment.
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After witnessing the town hall in person and hearing the cheers of the thousands of people who lined the streets outside, it is clear that the silent majority is silent no more.
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Like the silent majority of other middling or poor urban dwellers in expensive cities, we are residents of tiny homes not by design, but because it is all our money can rent.
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Others are more spur of the moment: The guest for the recent "The Silent Majority Is Back" episode was booked after video of him protesting the cancellation of a gun show went viral.
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"Democrats had no problem rigging their primary against Bernie Sanders and his supporters," the email continues, "and now they're choosing to strip the Silent Majority of their new-found voice in our country."
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He also blames city power-brokers for intimidating the silent majority that he feels backed his cause, notably the city newspaper, the Times-News, which he says falsely portrayed his campaign as "bigoted".
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Just as we have moral obligations to protect our children and our families, as stewards of this planet we are morally obligated to protect the silent majority of biodiversity that shares our home.
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Richard M. Nixon appealed to the "silent majority," and Bill Clinton castigated an African-American rap star named Sister Souljah to reach out to disaffected white voters who had fled the Democratic Party.
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" Richard M. Nixon appealed to the "silent majority" and the "hard hats," while his vice president, Spiro T. Agnew, issued slashing attacks on an "effete core of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
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"Like the silent majority of other middling or poor urban dwellers in expensive cities, we are residents of tiny homes not by design, but because it is all our money can rent," she wrote.
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On Sunday night, after the march, he called on Ms. Lam in a Facebook post to shelve the extradition bill now that the "silent majority" of Hong Kong had come out marching against it.
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But "identities" held primarily by white and Christian Americans have been politicized for decades, from the Silent Majority of the Nixon presidency to the "NASCAR dads" Democrats sought to recruit during the 2004 presidential election.
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Campaigners like me need to get better at engaging the silent majority who deplore the incitement of hatred, but who may have real concerns about immigration, security or the pace of change in their communities.
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The origins lie in the bitter social and cultural conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s and were evident in the movement of the "silent majority," Reagan Democrats and "angry white men" to the Republican column.
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Trump-branded signs intoning the slogan "THE SILENT MAJORITY STANDS WITH TRUMP" festoon his rallies, and optimistic writers invoke the notion of a silent majority to tout theories that the polls are undercounting Trump voters.
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Drafting off of Wallace and unrest in the country with more discreet, coded words, former Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, promised "the silent majority" that he would restore "law and order" on America's streets.
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"America first" was the rallying cry of isolationists before World War II. Most apt of all was his occasional reference to his base as the "silent majority," a phrase first popularized by Richard Nixon in 0003.
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" She continued: "I consider myself a part of the silent majority that led to Trump's rise, which is why I want you to know that I am with you — I wanted Trump to be real, too.
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Richard Nixon came roaring into the 1968 and 1972 campaigns with promises that he could end the war in Vietnam and maintain law and order in a country where the "Silent Majority" had been ignored by liberals.
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Many in Pantsuit Nation have started referring to themselves as the "silent majority," a term popularized by President Nixon to describe Middle Americans that didn't receive the media attention the counter-culture forces of the time did.
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For this reason, look for President Trump to begin to tone down his rhetoric, thereby positioning Republicans to win the "silent majority" who are fed up with the rage and unending protestations of those on the left.
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In this way, the "culture wars" of the 1970s and 1980s pitted progressives, who wielded individual rights arguments, against traditionalists — the "silent majority" or "Moral Majority" — who countered that rights should be limited to protect community morality.
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That period was far more violent but culminated in a landslide victory for Richard Nixon in 1972, after he famously appealed to the "silent majority," who he believed resented what they saw as disrespect for American institutions.
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Referring to themselves as "the silent majority" on the MAGA March website, which has since been taken down, they said they found themselves feeling increasingly marginalized and forgotten in what they called the agenda of the elite left.
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Nixon was the avatar of the "silent majority" of resentful whites, but he didn't make it a pet phrase until he was already in the White House, and it wasn't the main thing that got him elected or reelected.
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Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign used code words and phrases like "law and order" and "the silent majority" to refer to the policing of communities of color and the white anti-integration movement respectively (terms that Trump resurrected in 2016).
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In my own work as an educator for more than 22 years I have employed the approach of the MVP program with an acute understanding of the locker room environment that relies on the silent majority to perpetuate a toxic environment.
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Grenell denied in a tweet on Sunday that he sought to take a political stand with his comments, but stopped short of fully retracting them, saying that Trump had led an "awakening from the silent majority" in the U.S. and Europe.
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In the biggest pro-unity demonstration since the constitutional crisis began, a crowd estimated by police to number 350,000 waved Spanish and Catalan flags and chanted "Here is the silent majority," a direct rebuttal to the regional government's push for secession.
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El Mundo newspaper reported 65,000 turned out on Thursday, at least 10 times more than on last year's national holiday, but only a fifth of the crowd that turned out to oppose independence last weekend, calling themselves the "silent majority".
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They earn their own money or benefit from independent think tanks or patrons, and they write about local or specific subjects: migrant workers, victims of the Mao era, targets of religious persecution, dispossessed farmers — "the silent majority," according to the novelist Wang Xiaobo.
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" Hand-dyer and knitter Maria Tusken, who is white, posted a video on YouTube saying she spoke for the "silent majority" of knitters who didn't think racism was a problem, that people were being "hostile ... all in the name of this social justice issue.
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President Donald Trump won his campaign, in part, on the promise of bringing hope back to "the silent majority," a large swath of mainly white working-class Americans who feel they have been left behind by trade policies like NAFTA and have watched their manufacturing jobs disappear.
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President Ivanov, who comes from the opposing Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization—Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE), said on Monday that the government should not go ahead with the change, the low turnout being a sign from "the silent majority" whose views were "underestimated".
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"There's a perception that Hong Kong businesspeople are not sympathetic to the protests, but look at the silent majority that spoke in large peaceful marches or in the district council elections," said Todd Darling, an American restaurateur who has lived in Hong Kong for 16 years.
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The top story about Yovanovitch was by the New York Post, titled "Marie Yovanovitch Admits Obama Admin Prepped Her On Hunter Biden" (141,100 engagements), which was shared 15,000 times from the Texas for Donald Trump 2020 Facebook page and 10,0003 times from the Silent Majority page.
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HuffPost reported multiple drivers declined to give rides to far-right activists attending the "We the People Rally," which aimed at gathering members of the "silent majority" who wanted to take a stand to show people what "patriotism really is," according to a Facebook page for the event.
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Cleveland (CNN)The "Silent Majority" Donald Trump has inspired and rallied throughout his campaign congregated in a riverfront park here Monday -- a hodgepodge of supporters who, while unlikely to step foot inside the convention hall less than a mile away, nevertheless counted themselves among the real estate mogul's most fervent backers.
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"Members of the silent majority don't support the extradition bill, but nonetheless they want life to return to normal," said Willy Lam, an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a longtime analyst of Chinese politics, in reference to the now shelved bill that sparked that initial protests.
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The reason for the choice here, if you're familiar with the film, is obvious: it follows the rising popularity of a guitar-playing hayseed inmate nicknamed Lonesome Rhodes as he moves from radio to television to eventually coaching presidential candidates how to appeal to the silent majority, and coming close to running for office himself.
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After years of being used and abused, the Silent Majority they muzzled is rising up and its voice is Republican nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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The tune, told from the point of view of a straight-arrow Oklahoman who praises it as a place "where even squares can have a ball" and disparages the "hippies out in San Francisco," was immediately adopted by what became known as the "silent majority," conservative middle Americans who wondered what was going on in an America out of control.
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For years now conservative critics and sociologists and intellectuals have been acknowledging that the answers might be no — that the country's once-rich associational and civic and religious life is declining and dissolving, that corporate America embraces conservative slogans to keep taxes low and unions weak but otherwise seems post-patriotic and performatively woke, that the "silent majority" of hardworking, pious, culturally conservative blue-collar families is now essentially defunct.
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