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Bruce MacDonald

This was a nightmare.

How-EVER, as they say in the investment disclosures, past performance is no guarantee of future performance.

(Norman's from Grand Rapids and oft-quoted around here; there's your , Minnesota.)

Whatever we learn from history, maybe we're doomed to repeat it?

Or not. Who the eff knows?

Good column, if you like political history.

latimes.com/opinion/story/2024

For Democrats, of course, Chicago in August could be déjà vu all over again. Their 1968 gathering is the limiting case of a contested and bitter convention, one where the withdrawal of the incumbent Johnson, spurred by a challenge from Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy, led to a struggle between Robert F. Kennedy and Vice President Hubert Humphrey that was upended by Kennedy’s assassination that June. Most of Kennedy’s delegates went to Humphrey, who won the nomination handily on the first ballot. But anti-Vietnam War demonstrations outside the convention hall were met with tear gas and violence from Chicago police, and after Connecticut Sen. Abe Ribicoff used the podium to decry Mayor Richard J. Daley’s “Gestapo tactics,” the vivid image inside the hall was Daley shaking his fist and shouting an antisemitic epithet at Ribicoff. All of it left Humphrey with the opposite of a “convention bump.” He fell just short in November, a defeat easily attributable to mayhem at the convention.
#uspol#history#Minnesota
Bruce MacDonald

'The last time the Democratic National Convention was held in Philadelphia, it was 1948 and young Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey pleaded for a civil rights plank in the Democratic platform.

'He asked the party to "walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights."

'You can hear his words in an Minnesota Public Radio documentary, "The Politics of Joy: A Radio Remembrance of Hubert Humphrey."'
mprnews.org/story/2016/07/26/m

Former President Bill Clinton and other dignitaries unveiled a statue of Hubert H. Humphrey Aug. 4, 2012 on the Minnesota State Capitol lawn. Also pictured, Hubert H. Humphrey III, Walter Mondale and Mark Dayton. Photo: Rupa Shenoy/MPR News
#mnpol#uspol#history
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