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☆ The Activist Left Doesn’t Want a Hero. But Does It Need One?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Ross Barkan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The parallels between 1968 and 2024 are uncanny. Joe Biden has become the first president since Lyndon B. Johnson to forgo seeking another term — and Kamala Harris, like Johnson’s vice president, Hubert Humphrey, has been elevated without having won any mandate in party primaries. There are, of course, vast differences. Democrats are far more united behind Harris than they were around Humphrey; there will be no contested convention this year, no war for delegates. And Richard M. Nixon, a darkly introspective child of the working class, was not Donald Trump.

Persons: Joe Biden, Lyndon B, Johnson, Kamala Harris, Hubert Humphrey, Benjamin Netanyahu, Harris, Humphrey, Richard M, Nixon, Donald Trump Locations: Chicago, Vietnam, Gaza

☆ How Oct. 7 Drove a Wedge Into the Democratic Party
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Ross Barkan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There had been chatter about a Nassau County legislator who, in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, moved some listeners at a local Jewish Community Center to tears. Mazi Pilip, an Ethiopian-born Israeli American, recounted how her family members had huddled together in a bomb shelter. She told one sister that she wanted to put on, once more, the uniform of the Israeli military. “I had a hope, a little hope, one day there will be a peace,” she recalled, her voice cracking. “I have so many family members, right now, fighting.”The speech alone most likely did not persuade Republicans to nominate Pilip in the Feb. 13 special election to replace Santos.

Persons: Mazi, “, ”, Tom Suozzi, Pilip Organizations: Jewish Community Center, Santos Locations: Nassau, Israel, Ethiopian

☆ The D.N.C. Has a Primary Problem
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Ross Barkan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

With Clyburn’s blessing, he became chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. “People thought early on, Oh, God, Jaime’s the chair of the D.N.C., so therefore he’s going to put his finger on the scale for South Carolina. “National Geographic said that 90 percent of African Americans can trace one of their ancestors to South Carolina. In our primary, 50 to 60 percent of the people who vote in the Democratic primary will be Black folks. A first-in-the-nation South Carolina primary lends Black moderates, a pivotal Democratic constituency, the kind of clout that many believe they deserve.

Persons: Jaime Harrison, Harrison, Kyrsten, Biden, Jim Clyburn, Ron Brown, Brown, Lindsey Graham, Clyburn, South Carolina —, ” Harrison, it’s, hasn’t Organizations: Democratic National Committee, Democratic, South Carolina, Biden, Podesta, South Carolina Democratic Party, Geographic, Democratic Party Locations: South Carolina, New Hampshire, Montana , Ohio, West Virginia, Arizona, D.N.C, South, Southern, Carolina, Hampshirites, America, Iowa

☆ How Hard Will It Be for DeSantis to Beat Trump? Nixon vs. Reagan in 1968 Offers a Clue. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Ross Barkan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ron DeSantis, the 44-year-old governor of Florida, has entered the presidential race, establishing himself as the most formidable Republican rival to Donald Trump. Mr. Trump, an inveterate liar who tried to overturn the last election, is alienating to a wide swath of voters, and many establishment Republicans have been happy to hunt out alternatives, particularly in Mr. DeSantis. After a rough midterm for Republicans that included the defeat of several Senate candidates endorsed by Mr. Trump, the former president appeared vulnerable. But since then, it has grown clear that counting him out as the likely Republican presidential nominee is foolhardy. History offers at least one parallel for why it will be so difficult for Mr. DeSantis and other G.O.P.

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