When Donald Trump declared himself “the president of law and order,” comparisons immediately ran to Richard Nixon and 1968. Nixon too had campaigned on law and order, against the backdrop of urban riots following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and antiwar protesters who clashed with Chicago police right outside the Democratic convention. So the Nixon analogy is apt. But it is incomplete without its complement: Joe Biden as Hubert Humphrey.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 31, 2020 23:15 UTC