Today's scenario reminds me of 1968 and how Nixon got to the white house.

[jaysunb]

I've been very confident we would get rid of Trump, but enter the paid infiltraitors and provacatuers and the whole dynamic changes.

[bobbieinok]

1. Don't forget how media painted protestors as hoodlums

No reporting of how the mess around the hotels etc, was essentially a cop riot

There were many reports in alternate news of cops flooding hotels with tear gas, even if it was a hotel of mostly middle-aged tourists

And beating up young adults walking peacefully blocks from where the convention events were taking place

Also many speakers at convention were furious about what the cops were doing in the streets, often to their own college- age kids. They said so too--to the convention and to reporters.

But whole story of convention has come down in history as a bunch of out-of-control hippies interfering with the time-honored process of an election

Good job of spinning and rewriting history!

[tinrobot]

2. Perhaps, but in 1968 Nixon wasn't the incumbent

A lot of people blamed Johnson for the war protests because... it was Johnson's war.

I don't see how Trump fully escapes blame here, either.

[ecstatic]

3. Did Nixon say he'd use our military to execute looters?

[rockfordfile]

5. Trump supporters support that

[BannonsLiver]

4. Meh

We’ll be on to something else in a few weeks. That’s how we do it here in good old ‘Merica.

Case in point: Haven’t heard Ahmaud Arbery’s name all week.