With a divided party base buffeted by campus radicalism, the Democrats’ national convention in Chicago is a riot-plagued shambles. Tarred with extremism and lawlessness, President Joe Biden loses a winnable presidential election to a controversial Republican with his own ample baggage.
Will that be the history of summer 2024? It happened in 1968, after all.
The radicalism of four summers ago, when Black Lives Matter-inspired activists brought disorder to dozens of cities, has been given a surge of new rocket fuel by the war in Gaza. The radical Left is out in the open now, demanding action against Israel, and even an intifada in America. This can no longer be dismissed as a mere campus matter, however. Biden and his party find themselves in a difficult spot, needing to placate more centrist Democratic donors, some of whom are Jewish, while keeping pro-Palestinian Zoomers…
