Opinion: The differences between 1968 and today
A little knowledge, said Alexander Pope, is a dangerous thing. It’s true of the Trump advisers who beguile the president with glib history lessons, telling him that it’s 1968 all over again and he’s Richard M. Nixon, the law-and-order candidate ready to tame anarchy. Trump, who has no knowledge of history at all, appears to be falling for this bad advice.
By contrast, in 2020 Trump is the chaos. Though he talks endlessly of long-ago Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Trump’s the one in the White House, where he has been for nearly 3½ years. His role is closer to the part played by Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1968. Though Humphrey was not, technically, the incumbent, he carried an incumbent’s baggage — and what a load it was: Vietnam, urban riots, campus uprisings, an exhausted New Deal.
And it’s an unfamiliar place for Donald Trump. In his long and colorful life, the one thing he has never experienced is accountability. Through bankruptcies and divorces, through busted friendships and cratered companies, through fabrications and prevarications, there has never been a problem he couldn’t turn his back on.So he’s an easy mark for the advisers who tell him to run like an outsider from inside the White House. Yet the presidency is not like a bankrupt casino or a second wife.
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