The National Review has an excellent article dealing with the "day the Democrat Party died ~ editor.
<<< Hubert Humphrey was the Dem candidate
Chicago, 1968 : The riots that night set a political pattern that Democrats are still following today. Fifty years ago tonight, a great American political party was murdered by its own children and closest friends.
The party in question was the Democratic party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and JFK, which perished during the riots in Grant Park, Chicago, on the night of Aug. 28, 1968, in the midst of the party’s national convention.
Its children in this case were the rioters from the anti–Vietnam War Left. After killing off the traditional liberal Democratic party they despised, they would go on to take over the corpse and make it the host of America’s radical Left, from Jerry Brown to Bernie Sanders — with George McGovern, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama as their front men . . . . .
(read the full article at National Review, here).
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