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The Republican party has not been a "law and order" party even before the past decade. Watergate was illegal. Iran-Contra was illegal. The torture at Abu Ghraib was illegal. The outing of Plame was illegal.
when they talk about "Law and Order" what they really mean is criminalizing minorities so that the prison-labor industry has a steady stream of essentially slave labor to compete with the low cost of labor... elsewhere...
which is why weed and crack all carry harsh sentences (and directly comparing crack to powder cocaine... much harsher sentences... crack was used by african americans.) Bush Senior's "Baggy of Crack" moment was fine example of this. in order to get the dealer in Lafayette Park "just across the street form the whitehouse!" ...the FBI had to entrap a kid to come down and do the delivery. Because no other dealer was willing to go.
The only real change it would seem is that Republicans no longer need to set up the entrapment first. These days they'd have just borrowed some of Jared's crack and waved it around and making up stories about where it came from.