MSNBC hosts Lawrence O’Donnell and Chris Matthews contain written books about politics 50 years ago. Why is 1968 and all that so important to liberals?A television actor courting the far right. A “law and order” candidate railing about race and crime. An eccentric,one-cause liberal cheered on by students who balk at the establishment’s colorless pick. Two arch manipulators, each intent to win at all costs – with one even arranging contacts with a foreign nation to his own ends.whether the conceit sounds like HBO’s version of the 2016 election, or that seems to be what the MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell has in intellect with Playing With Fire,his modern book about the 1968 race. Ronald Reagan is the actor, billed as “the Donald Trump of the 1960s”; George Wallace the demagogue whose voters “sounded like Trump voters in 2016”; Eugene McCarthy the ideologue, or with echoes of Bernie Sanders; Hubert Humphrey the party’s choice,a nod to Hillary Clinton; Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon are the puppetmasters, wheeling and dealing to the end.
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Source: theguardian.com