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From The Reporter’s Notebook
It looks like Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid is finally coming to a close, TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal reported. Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Monday morning confirmed that Sanders will appear with the former secretary of state at a Tuesday campaign event. Sanders is expected to endorse Clinton then, according to several news reports.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “Indeed, a good deal of what made 1968 ‘1968’ was the way in which a building momentum of violence, civil unrest and a seeming breakdown of the society itself, which had been escalating in the two or three previous years, built to such a pitch of intensity that it seemed the entire society might be overturned, that there might never be a going back. I say all this as a student of the past rather than a witness. I was born in February 1969. By so many measures – civil disorder, political breakdown, assassinations, death tolls, the US Army operating in major American cities – there is truly no comparing that era in our country’s history with today. As Jon Chait argues here, there is an underlying societal unity, prosperity and consensus which the headlines, political and cultural polarization and atrocities obscure. And yet, I don’t think we can quite, entirely close the book on the analogy.”
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I find it both interesting and incredibly frustrating that so many people seem to think all of this is new. I grew up in neighborhoods that were largely black and Latino in LA in the 60s and all of this was going on then. It’s just that very few people who didn’t grow up in that environment understood what was happening. For example, the SC officer who shot the guy in the back and then planted a gun next to him. His story would have been believed in the white community at that time. He was outed for the liar and dishonest cop he was because of a cell phone video that showed, in graphic detail, what really happened. Until the brave guy with the cell phone came forward, the official story was quite different from what actually happened.”
Related: Dallas protest organizers condemned last week’s violence, noting the protest was peaceful until gunshots rang out.
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