You may have noticed my obsession this year with 1968… It’s hard not to see parallels between 40 years ago and the present day. Harold Meyerson has an interesting article about the ‘68 Democratic primary race that points out something that is very accurate in my view…
I tell this tale, of course, not merely to remind us that the better world of which Robert Kennedy so movingly spoke died aborning 40 years ago in Los Angeles. I also tell it because I see a dynamic similar to that between the Kennedy and McCarthy campaigns in the relationship between Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s equally historic campaigns, and because today’s Democrats have been given a chance — as they were not in 1968 — to come together and make the kinds of changes they have only dreamed of over the past four decades. You would think — well, hope — that after 40 years, this time they’d get it right.
