Is it 1968?

Is it all over again? To the extent the Trump campaign for president has an organizing principle, that has become the organizing principle. The author think what Nixon understood is that when the world is falling apart, people want a strong leader whose highest priority is protecting America first, Trump told an interviewer for the New York Times on the eve of his convention in Cleveland. The 1960s were bad, really bad. And it's really bad now. Americans feel like it's chaos again. Yet in all the chaos, the United States had one great resource then that it lacks today: a functioning conservative party. To be sure, the Republicans of the late 1960s were not yet the movement conservative party they would later become. But they were an institutionally consenting party: a party that believed there was more in the US that was deserving of protection than in need of change.