The political lesson of the 1968 anti-war protests
“The big issue in ’68, it turned out, was not Vietnam – it was law and order,” says historian James Traub. And for Biden, “The electoral danger is [protesters] offending the much larger group of voters to Biden’s right.” And his “narrow path” is to “take action in regard to Israel that will show that he shares some of their concerns…in a way that does not identify him with the demonstrators.”
