2. The big point of comparison with 1968 is that there's a legitimacy crisis: a significant chunk of the population has lost faith in the government.
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3. Some thoughts on the legitimacy crisis but also the more hopeful signs (with a dash of Natalie Zemon Davis &
@TomSugrue) here:https://www.thenation.com/subject/police-and-law-enforcement/ …Show this thread
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this is a police riot, like at the 68 convention
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blame placed on amorphous groups of leftists, like baseless claims (regurgitated by the media) that "Black Power organizations" orchestrated '68
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I think that people are also failing to weigh how much the pandemic has frayed our sense of security and normalcy and primed us for this.
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Now compare it to ‘92 riots and election
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