Some people are saying it's shaping up to be as bad as 1968. How many remember Chicago 1968? It was nearly civil war, apart from forever sadly being both the apex of Bobby Kennedy's career and the bullet-ending denial of the promise of what his presidency might have been.
"CHICAGO — In a room full of 450 far-left activists, a leader with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization kicks off a chant: “Protest is a right—not just for the rich and white.”“Have you heard that the Democratic National Convention is coming to Chicago?” Joe Iosbaker asks the crowd. “Are we going to let ’em come here without a protest? This is Chicago, goddamn it—we’ve got to give them a 1968 kind of welcome.”In 1968, the Democratic Convention in Chicago was a bloodbath, with 600 arrests in one street battle that was broadcast all over the world. And the group that met here last Saturday, in the local headquarters of the Teamsters Union, wants to repeat history when Joe Biden is named the presidential nominee at the DNC this August. They oppose the president they call “Genocide Joe” for backing Israel in its war against Hamas.
The mess and the violence of 1968 left Chicago a shambles for years, and the city took decades to recover.Well, now the crazies are back, getting ready to wreck Chicago a second time this August 19. Odds are good they will succeed, too, given the fecklessness of the blue city government led by clueless leftist Brandon Johnson, which the Free Press article notes. Johnson won't have any idea how to handle them, it won't be with any resolution, so they will run circles around him and create a lot of problems, outright upstaging the convention if it gets bad enough."
