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| Top Dem Strategist: Dems at risk of allowing riots and violence to define their party as they did in '68 |
| 2020-06-05 |
| [Fox] Doug Schoen: George Floyd unrest — only this can save Dems from defeat in 2020. As violent protests sweep the nation and fury fills city streets in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, the 2020 presidential election is shaping up to be eerily similar to the 1968 campaign. In 1968, the country was grieving from the assassinations of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was on the path to claiming the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. The period preceding the 1968 election was a time of great civil unrest. There were riots across the country following Dr. King’s assassination, and the August 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago became a venue for protests against the Vietnam War — led by left-wing activist groups like Students for a Democratic Society — and culminated in a televised riot where police clashed with protesters. As a result of that year’s civil unrest, which was also accompanied by inner Democratic Party division between the moderates and far left, Democrats embraced a more liberal foreign policy perspective while focusing mainly on social and racial justice issues, largely at the expense of economic issues. Taken together, the party’s leftward movement and the accompanying civil unrest, which was associated with the far left, helped Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” prevail in the 1968 election and in 1972, when he won by a 49-state landslide. Nixon’s approach appealed to the silent majority with a promise to restore “law and order,” while the Democratic Party was viewed as too far left. |
| Posted by:Lex |
| #5 50 more years of control of media and education. Back then California was Republican... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-06-05 19:23 |
| #4 Antifa is your 21st Century Klan, you own it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-06-05 19:13 |
| #3 Dump the Hump! |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-06-05 19:07 |
| #2 the rest of the '70s was one of the high points of American and indeed my life! What I can remember. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-06-05 15:59 |
| #1 I understand where everyone is going with the '68 comparisons. At the risk of being an Eeyore, let's take a look at what happened in those times. Nixon won a very close race thanks to George Wallace taking a lot of his votes. Nixon took office and gave us the EPA and a bunch of other items from the liberal wishlist. Nixon then won a landslide in '72 (with some help from the assassination attempt on George Wallace). There was a lot of noise from the Nixon camp that his second term would see the reining in of Leviathan. Nixon's second term was a Golden Age of conservative policy initiatives and he left office in 1977 as one of the most beloved figures in American public life. Thanks to these conservative policy successes, the rest of the '70s was one of the high points of American and indeed, human history. (Checks notes) Uhh, wait a sec... |
| Posted by: charger 2020-06-05 15:04 |