Keeping It Real

It’s hard to imagine a worse idea than the one being proposed by some in Biden’s circle: a hybrid Democratic National Convention.

D.D. GUTTENPLAN

IF YOU BELIEVE THE HEADLINES, THE SPECTER haunting the minds of Democrats today is not communism but the shadow of Chicago 1968, when young people protesting the Vietnam War—and the machine-backed nomination of Hubert Humphrey (presented to the Democratic National Convention though he hadn’t won a single primary)— flooded into the city, where they were met by Mayor Richard Daley’s cops. The ensuing riot, broadcast on national television, is widely blamed for propelling Richard Nixon into the White House. If Israel is still using American weapons to kill Palestinian civilians this August, the anti-war movement may well show up in Chicago again. Even so, it strains credulity that, as Politico recently reported, “some in Biden’s orbit are aggressively pushing” the Democrats to adopt a hybrid mode for their 2024 convention, featuring…

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The Nation (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2024

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