The party in question was the Democratic party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and JFK, which perished during the riots in Grant Park, Chicago, on the night of Aug. 28, 1968, in the midst of the party's national convention.
After killing off the traditional liberal Democratic party they despised, they would go on to take over the corpse and make it the host of America's radical Left, from Jerry Brown to Bernie Sanders - with George McGovern, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama as their front men.
Their coverage of the riots, that night and later, would make the SDS demonstrators and their violent cohorts - the predecessors of today's antifa - into martyrs of "Police brutality" and Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley's "Gestapo tactics," as one Democratic senator from Connecticut put it in a speech to the convention that night, when they had in fact been - like today's antifa - the deliberate instigators of mayhem and bloodshed.
In August 1968, Democratic delegates swarmed to their national convention in Chicago to try to heal the wounds left by a divisive war in Vietnam, riots and assassinations at home, and a bitter three-way race for the presidential nomination between Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and the now-dead Kennedy, after an increasingly unpopular President Lyndon Johnson had withdrawn from the contest.
Humphrey would be the last Democratic presidential nominee to represent the values of Truman and JFK: compassionate big government at home, and resolute anti-Communism abroad. Instead, a new Democratic party was born, one that increasingly reflected the radical views of the Chicago protesters: that America, not Communism, was the real force for evil that needed to be contained and transformed.
That Democratic party would nominate George McGovern in its 1972 convention and become a party obsessed with social justice, identity politics, and America's past sins - essentially the party it is today.
Meanwhile mainstream Democratic voters began their flight to the Republican party, "Reagan Democrats" who would enable the GOP to win four of the next five presidential elections and who later became the foot soldiers of the Trump insurgency.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/1968-democratic-convention-riots-modern-party-established/
After killing off the traditional liberal Democratic party they despised, they would go on to take over the corpse and make it the host of America's radical Left, from Jerry Brown to Bernie Sanders - with George McGovern, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama as their front men.
Their coverage of the riots, that night and later, would make the SDS demonstrators and their violent cohorts - the predecessors of today's antifa - into martyrs of "Police brutality" and Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley's "Gestapo tactics," as one Democratic senator from Connecticut put it in a speech to the convention that night, when they had in fact been - like today's antifa - the deliberate instigators of mayhem and bloodshed.
In August 1968, Democratic delegates swarmed to their national convention in Chicago to try to heal the wounds left by a divisive war in Vietnam, riots and assassinations at home, and a bitter three-way race for the presidential nomination between Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and the now-dead Kennedy, after an increasingly unpopular President Lyndon Johnson had withdrawn from the contest.
Humphrey would be the last Democratic presidential nominee to represent the values of Truman and JFK: compassionate big government at home, and resolute anti-Communism abroad. Instead, a new Democratic party was born, one that increasingly reflected the radical views of the Chicago protesters: that America, not Communism, was the real force for evil that needed to be contained and transformed.
That Democratic party would nominate George McGovern in its 1972 convention and become a party obsessed with social justice, identity politics, and America's past sins - essentially the party it is today.
Meanwhile mainstream Democratic voters began their flight to the Republican party, "Reagan Democrats" who would enable the GOP to win four of the next five presidential elections and who later became the foot soldiers of the Trump insurgency.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/1968-democratic-convention-riots-modern-party-established/
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