In 1968, protests towards the Vietnam Battle reached a climax in Chicago exterior the Democratic Nationwide Conference, the place the police beat and arrested demonstrators — and most certainly contributed to Hubert Humphrey’s loss within the normal election that November. On this audio essay, the columnist Charles Blow attracts a parallel between these occasions and this 12 months’s conference, which will even happen in Chicago and the place protesters are once more planning demonstrations. Blow warns the Biden marketing campaign that the rising campus protest motion alerts what might come and that the marketing campaign ignores historical past at its peril.
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