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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social |
Yeah it’s not like we’ll see a repeat of 1968, when the Democrats downshifted to a Vice President at a convention in Chicago that was plagued by protests against the party’s support for an unpopular foreign war and wound up creating an opening for a candidate they’d beat before. Totally different!
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Wendell B
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Position a detachment of the 101st Airborne, with flamethrowers and bazookas, in Arlington Heights!
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@horizontalhold.bsky.social
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1968 was a close thing that was marred partly by the VP's own actions and refusal to fight hard. While Kamala may easily make some of the same mistakes she will absolutely not pull back where Humphrey did.
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riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་
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TOTALLY different, because nobody named Daley is mayor of Chicago.
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Michael Love
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It's a shame book 5 still isn't out, I imagine it would be highly instructive in this situation
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Ulrich - „nuke from orbit - only way to be sure.“
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🤔😳
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Tim
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My initial reaction to this headline was “am I being punk’d”
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Jake Wright
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No, no, no. This time is different because in 1968, there was *also* a huge conservative backlash to significant gains in gender and racial equali… Wait. I'm being handed some new information here.
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Armando Bayolo
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Someone should seriously check on RFK if that happens.
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amdiamanti
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AJ
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1968 was largely about policy too. But now is about a person. Yet, they aren't asking Biden to resign now. If there were genuine concerns about abilities to lead, they'd do that, right?
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Dag.
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But this time it's different. Trump commits crimes, doesn't respect norms, and targets his critics... but with Stephen Miller in his ear, not Kissinger. So, where was I?
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ricky cilantro
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I’m losing my fkn mind doc
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Sue
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Is that article satire? 🤯
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Mike the (Retired) Redleg
@msmith1047.bsky.social
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Somehow, sadly, I don’t think Trump will be resigning like Nixon, though he may do so temporarily to allow his VP to give him a pardon like Ford.
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Tee Jay Kaye
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Tahfromslc
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And., as Seth says, scaring the shit out of the party so much that the stink lingers today.
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Adam Rothman
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2024 and 1968
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Pyrito Hedron
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Is writing these a paid position? I can write 1,000 words describing a terrible idea, on deadline, and I could use some supplementary income.
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Evan Prellberg
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Oh would it be great if there was still a Daley in office for round 2
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Sue Cris
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OK, this simplifies things - I won't start up my subscription to EITHER the WaPo or the NYT. Done with them both!
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Stephen Schiavone
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The more I think about it, the more I believe all this bullshit Biden is taking from the establishment might wind up helping him. It is hard to paint someone as an establishment crony when the most casual observer can see the establishment hates you.
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Alex Cruikshanks
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Not to mention the obvious point that when LBJ withdrew, there had been precisely 1 binding primary contest. For Biden now, there have been 57.
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Dean Scott
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I'm liking the Gandalf/Saruman comparison. G forgot who he was, forgot the password for the doorway, but S led an insurrection of orcs against Helm's Deep and Gandalf brought the Rohirrim to aid. Not voting for G due to age or protest is dumb at this point. There needs to be a solid rebuke of S.
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Sinclair Lewis
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Phillips is not HHH, just saying.
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Specter177 ✈️ 🌈
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We were almost going to send some astronauts around the moon this year too.
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@jiminnh.bsky.social
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"Hugely popular" with the entire Republican party and Abbie Hoffman, et al.
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Matt Salomone
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Welp, guess we didn’t learn from our history did we
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Here’s a better take
www.history.com/news/lbj-exi...
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Dan Davis
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“The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!”
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Dextrosity
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JFC, these Pundit Brains are getting smoother by the day.
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Michael A. Levin
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"History does not repeat itself as sure as hell rhymes." - someone more clever than me.
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Sara Manns
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And: in (at least) WI and OH, state officials who are movement Republicans will certainly enforce state laws about when the nominee has to be chosen to get onto the ballot? They'll win those fights. How's that work for branding Democrats for the undecided voters who haven't already chosen Not Trump?
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Ray Curenton
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Finding the worst part about adulthood is that, as a child you’re repeatedly told “those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it,” so you learn your history, only to find that because you lack power, you’re still doomed to repeat it
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kth
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Pitch for 1968 reboot: what if we made the corrupt menace to democracy and the gutter racist outsider one character
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Not Yet Post Democracy Joshua Vaughan
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Given all of Trump’s awkward ties to Nixon, it would almost be poetry if wasn’t going to 99.9% tragedy (0.01% comedy, but some of the darkest gallows shit ever)
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🇺🇦 Good Governance Seems Important 🇺🇦
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Yeah. Totally. Re-read what you said because it is totally different. What war? What protests? GTFOOH
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Michelangelo Signorile
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And lose the power of incumbency. (Johnson probably would have won if he stayed in)
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Cmdr. Overbite
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But it’s different this time because in ‘68 the Republican was an unprincipled crook who would do anything to get and keep power and sorry hold on I’m being handed a note
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Alan Neff
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I've invoked Will Rogers on the disorganization of the D party since I started voting ('68? '70? '72? - whenever I was first eligible to vote in MI.) I'd REALLY like to retire that cold-comfort quote from my repertory, but events continue to have other plans for us.
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Richard P Clark
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To my eye there's one gigantic difference: intra-party fracture had LBJ fighting a figurative two-front war. For now it seems the party plans to maintain unity behind Biden. You've forgotten more about this than I'll ever know–am I misunderstanding a key difference?
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