How FDR built the the American security state

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The administration largely refused to do the latter, but officials walked a fine line that allowed them to keep the anti-racists in their coalition: Some Democrats sponsored unsuccessful anti-lynching legislation, Roosevelt occasionally spoke against lynching, and he met with anti-lynching activists.
53% : In Roosevelt's case, those state-building exercises included gun control; the drug war; increased cooperation between federal, state, and local law enforcement; expansion of incarceration; and growing links between domestic police and the national security state.
45% : The notion of "lawlessness" was used to argue these were national problems that called for federal intervention.
20% : Many focus on the ways Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton escalated federal police power.

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