There's a new “silent majority,” and it's voting for Hillary Clinton - Vox

There's a new "silent majority," and it's voting for Hillary Clinton - Vox

There's a new "silent majority," and it's voting for Hillary Clinton Trump voters and Bernie Bros get all the press, but it's Hillary voters who are going to win. 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. The speech itself, if you read it, is rather banal and unremarkable, but the turn of phrase came to be a powerful icon of the politics of the era. At a time when American society seemed in many ways to be pulling apart, Nixon argued for stability. And with that phrase, he offered recognition to the large number of Americans who were neither Black Panthers nor Klansmen, neither war hawks nor hippies, just basically normal middle-class white people who rejected Jim Crow without embracing Black Power, disliked the war but disliked communism even more. Nixon's presidency itself descended into oblivion,

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