"There are surely many differences between 1968 and now. But politically speaking, if American history repeats, rhymes, or even speaks the same language of 1968, it doesn’t bode well for Democrats in the fall." "Even the hen doesn't cackle until she lays the egg." A Lincoln
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"It didn’t work out for Democrats back then, certainly, with Republican Richard Nixon handily defeating Hubert Humphrey, and Republicans picking up a net five seats in both the Senate and the House, along with a net gain of five governorships.
"Here are a few of these observed similarities.
"Radical leftists are again eating their own
"The first parallel, which many have already noted, is that the Democratic National Convention (DNC) will be again held in Chicago in August of this year, as it was in a politically contentious 1968. Recent events signify that the city may again be witness to mass protests outside the DNC, just as when “tens of thousands of protestors swarmed the streets to rally against the Vietnam War and the political status quo” in 1968.
"Pacifying those radicals without alienating the political center will be difficult. But this is the Faustian bargain that Democrats chose, then and now.
"By 1968, there had been an explosion of outrage over American military defense of South Vietnam against the aggression of the communist North Vietnam. Escalation in this Cold War conflict had occurred over many presidencies, and as such, the communist-sympathizing activists on college campuses viewed this as a systemic result of the American political status quo.
"Sen. Bernie Sanders recently argued that the Israel-Hamas conflict might become “Biden’s Vietnam.” Politically, he may be right. America is divided today on the conflict in the Middle East, and in a way that presents something of a catch-22 for Biden’s administration as it did for Democrats in 1968." . . .
Biden betrays Israel for the feeling of a few clueless college students (nypost.com) . . ."If the Israeli army does not destroy Hamas in Rafah then the war is effectively for nothing, and all the pain and grief on all sides might as well not have occurred.
"As I have said before, there is no point in putting out 80% of a fire. Until the Israeli army can clear Hamas out of Rafah the fire of Gaza is not out.
"But Biden seems to be bowing to pressure from some of his own base. As someone joked a few months back, Biden does indeed want to focus on a two-state solution, but the two states are Minnesota and Michigan.
"He is desperate to chase the few tens of thousands of voters who might turn on him because they care about Hamas more than they care about America." . . .
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