The Politics of Politics: 1968 Redux?

Republicans, even those who denounced Donald Trump earlier in the primaries, are getting out their checkbooks and rallying behind him. Trump, for his part, is deftly building bridges, releasing a list of potential Supreme Court nominees so conservative they would make Ted Cruz grin, and hosting a Chris Christie fund raiser to retire the former candidate's $400,000 in campaign debt.

Meanwhile, the Democratic party remains divided, with Bernie Sanders continuing to promote the notion that his nomination was stolen by a corrupt Democratic National Committee, not that at the end of the day he simply had less support, with Sanders supporters promising to bring their fight to the streets and convention hall in Philadelphia this summer.

I am sure to Sanders supporters it feels like the revolution is around the corner, and there are changes needed to the Democratic party system and country that can not wait, so therefore the Democratic party and its candidate must be taken to task. The same approach was tried in 1968. What it got us was six years of Richard Nixon.