I'm shocked at how few JPP
DEMOCRAT supporters seem to know the history of their own party.
Walt apparently thinks the 2020 convention won't turn into a riot because Milwaukee isn't Chicago, even though both
DEMOCRAT-dominated cities that hosted (or will host) highly contentious conventions.
As they are today, the Jackass Party was divided in 1968. Senator Eugene McCarthy entered the campaign in November 1967, challenging incumbent Lyndon Johnson for the
DEMOCRAT nomination. Bobby Kennedy entered the race in March 1968.
Johnson, facing dissent within his party, and having only barely won the New Hampshire primary, dropped out of the race on March 31.
Vice President Hubert Humphrey then entered the race, but did not compete in any primaries; he inherited the delegates previously pledged to Johnson and then collected delegates in caucus states, especially in caucuses controlled by local DEMOCRAT Party bosses. Sound sorta familiar?
After Kennedy's assassination on June 5, 1968, the Jackass Party's divisions intensified. The delegate count showed VP Humphrey with 561.5 (
DEMOCRAT math), Kennedy had 393.5, the night he died, and Gene McCarthy sucked the hind tit with 258.
Kennedy's murder left his delegates up for grabs. What happened next should be of interest to the modern reader.
Support within the party was divided between Gene McCarthy, who ran a radical anti-war campaign and was seen as the youth candidate
Old man Humphrey was widely considered to be the candidate representing the "moderates".
Guess what happened at the convention in 1968 when the young, passionate baby boomers thought their guy was getting the shaft from the old guard?
Some liberal boomers are still angry about the way the Party bosses fucked them over.