On August 19th, the Democrats will hold their national convention at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The venue is the home to the NBA Chicago Bulls and the NHL Chicago Blackhawks. However, instead of basketball and ice hockey, we are likely to see a 21st century version of the 1968 Democratic Convention where a violent confrontation between the Chicago police and New Left demonstrators doomed the election of Hubert Humphrey from the get-go.
Karl Marx wrote, “history
repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.” This time, I fear history
will repeat as tragedy. Why? The growing anti-Israel protest movement will
likely show up in force in Chicago. Within that group there are many violent
elements, and it would not surprise me to see provocateurs among them who will
seek to exploit the situation. Don’t be surprised to see more than a few “Death
to America” shouts and signs.
Unlike 1968 Chicago Mayor
Daly was in charge of a strong police force, today Chicago has a weak leftist
mayor in Brandon Johnson and a demoralized police force. I fear that this
combination will over-learn the lesson of 1968 where the police overreacted to
the demonstrators by clubbing them on national television. My guess is that this
time the police will underreact in such a manner that they will lose control of
the situation enabling the demonstrators to enter the convention floor with a
round of mayhem that will draw parallels to January 6th.
Americans watching
all of this play out on TV will come to the obvious conclusion that the
children of America’s most privileged are out of control. Indeed, they watch
them acting out every night from a host of elite college campuses. And it won’t
take a political genius to link them to President Biden and the elites of the
Democratic Party. I fear that Biden is trapped making the way open for Donald
Trump.
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