Our crisis in 1968 was imperial overstretch combined with convulsions that wracked the country because people felt we were expending American blood on a pointless and increasingly, unpopular war.
Our crisis in 2016 is a pitifully weak America incapable of stopping Islamic terrorist savagery abroad that’s left Americans frightened for their country’s future - and at home - we increasingly confront a society whose moral and social order are on the verge of collapse.
In 1968 we were strong and in 2016, we’re at our lowest point. There are similarities between Nixon and Trump’s law and order candidacies. But the position of America in the two generations was dramatically different.
The American people have to answer the question whether they want our crisis to drag on another decade or whether they want to make America great again.
On November 8, they will give us their answer for the future of our country.
Yes different times, problems and perceptions. I have been watching the replay of Nixon’s speech on Youtube. Seeing and listening to it puts it in a different context than reading it and I can tell you Nixon was hitting some of the same themes that Trump did last night.
Trump basically could have taken Nixon’s old speech and with minimal rewrites, updated it to today and it would have played the same as his last night.
In a sense we have come full circle since 1968.