Taxes rising, dissatisfaction with the government, war in a foreign land, and a fractured political party. Sounds like today don’t it?
Nah — just 1968.
In 1968 the Democratic Party faced chaos after the assassination of its frontrunner, Robert Kennedy, at the hands of Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian national. The Civil Rights movement was dealing with the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and our young men were burning their draft cards and fleeing to Canada faster than a Lear jet. Lyndon B. Johnson, a democrat, would not seek re-election and then-Mayor Daily failed at holding the protesters at bay in Chicago, in the contentious summer of 1968.
History is repeating itself 48 years later. This go round it’s Rahm Emanual who was unable to hold the lines in Chicago at a Trump rally. There is chaos in the Republican party, and Donald Trump is proving very hard to get rid of.
I ask myself, what is it about Donald Trump that scares the pants off of every politician that ever walked in any state from sea to shining sea? Democrat or Republican, no one wants Trump. Not sure, and I’m no expert, but I think it’s because he doesn’t play well in the sandbox.
At the first debate Trump was the only candidate asked to swear that he would not seek to run as an independent if he did not get the nomination. The press played along and at the CNN debate he was coerced into agreeing to that. So afraid he would steal their thunder from those that played the game for so long. When he promised that he wouldn’t, the pols heaved a sigh of relief, he would soon be gone.
But the joke’s on them because at the last debate — on the Ides of March — he’s still standing with only two of the original 17 nominees remaining.
Not for nuthin, but in 44 A.D., when Julius Caesar wouldn’t play with the boys in the sandbox, the senators just picked up knives and stabbed him to death. Being much more civilized in 2016, the senators this time around just changed the instrument from the pointed knife to the poison pen. Et tu, Republicans?
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