Decades after police violently clashed with Vietnam War protesters, Democrats are downplaying the “unprecedented” demonstrations that pro-Palestinian activists have promised are in store. “They want a convention,” says one organizer, “that goes off without a hitch.
Such violence is “not likely to be repeated,” Simpson told me, with Chicago preparing to host another Democratic convention—slated for the week of August 19—against a backdrop of civil unrest. Still, the former Chicago alderman, political adviser, and retired University of Illinois Chicago political science professor sees parallels between the Vietnam protests he participated in and the protests that have roiled college campuses in recent weeks.
“I don’t think it’s great to sort of go automatically to a historical analogy, just because it was the same city,” said Tom Bowen, a Democratic strategist in Chicago who worked on campaigns for former president Barack Obama and former mayors Rahm Emanuel and Lori Lightfoot. “It’s a dramatically different time.” Just because there are high-profile protests, he said, “it doesn’t indicate that it’s captured the zeitgeist of the whole party.
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