It would be folly to draw exact parallels between today’s unrest and those of 60 years ago. But some do resonate.
Mark Rudd, a leader of the student protest at Columbia University in New York, is interviewed outside Low Memorial Library, background, on April 25, 1968. Students had occupied the building. | APJeff Greenfield is a contributing writer at POLITICO Magazine covering U.S. politics. He’s a five-time Emmy-winning network television analyst and has written multiple books about American politics.
When upheaval began on college campuses, largely triggered by the escalation of the Vietnam War, this sense of disapproval grew sharply, and so did the political consequences. Pro Palestinian students lock arms, sing and chant as they brace for New York Police Department officers to raid campus after Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called on the NYPD to dismantle encampments and remove individuals from Hamilton Hall on April 30, 2024, in New York. | Seyma Bayram/AP
The scenes of violence in Chicago outside the Democrats’ 1968 presidential convention, meanwhile, further contributed to the notion that left-wing lawlessness had gotten out of control. It was a nightmare event for Hubert Humphrey’s beleaguered presidential campaign, one where the public overwhelmingly sided with the Chicago police, not the demonstrators.
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