I think a more apt comparison between Trump/Tonight is not the 68 Dem Con but....

[Joe the Revelator]

....The George Wallace campaign. David Gergin brought that up and I think that is a strong comparison.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Gergin is an idiot and doesn't understand the

Depth of anger anxiety and hatred Trump has tapped in the republican base.

[First Speaker]

2. Maybe the best analogy is "All the King's Men"...

...yeah, Trump and Willie Stark/Huey Long are totally different in their backgrounds, and in some ways in ideology. But the tactics of the two are similar, and both were wildly outside the accepted norms of American politics...

[joshcryer]

3. Indeed, only 5x worse.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. I wonder what the GOP convention will be like

Like Chicago, Cleveland is a big melting pot.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yes, and also the rise of Hitler

it is both

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. I found myself wondering what would have happened if protesters had busted into

Hitler's rallies in the beginning.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. They did

the 1920s were bad, as well as the early 1930s

Sorry for the source, some folks do not like this

http://isj.org.uk/divided-they-fell-the-german-left-and-the-rise-of-hitler/

Here is a jewish perspective

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Black.html

And a more standard view of this

http://www.shsu.edu/his_ncp/Weimar.html

[femmocrat]

6. Gergen also said this could cost drumpf the nomination.

We can hope!!!

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Yes, indeed.

And I was thinking of him, along with everything else that went on in 1968, when I did my post. I don't think we've seen anything like this in decades. What can we expect over the "long, hot summer"?