h/t Instapundit
Fifty years ago tonight, a great American political party was murdered by its own children and closest friends.
The party in question was the Democratic party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and JFK, which perished during the riots in Grant Park, Chicago, on the night of Aug. 28, 1968, in the midst of the party’s national convention.
Its children in this case were the rioters from the anti‐Vietnam War Left. After killing off the traditional liberal Democratic party they despised, they would go on to take over the corpse and make it the host of America’s radical Left, from Jerry Brown to Bernie Sanders ‐ with George McGovern, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama as their front men.
The friends who joined in the kill were the mainstream media. Their coverage of the riots, that night and later, would make the SDS demonstrators and their violent cohorts ‐ the predecessors of today’s antifa ‐ into martyrs of "police brutality" and Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley’s "Gestapo tactics," as one Democratic senator from Connecticut put it in a speech to the convention that night, when they had in fact been ‐ like today’s antifa ‐ the deliberate instigators of mayhem and bloodshed. Starting that night the New York Times, the Washington Post, and ABC and CBS News would become the enablers of America’s radical Left, even at its most violent ‐ and in the process cut themselves off from the millions of ordinary working Americans who had made the Democratic party their political home. 
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