In a short discussion about the Democrat party and the “superdelegates” they created to formalize their normal rejection of the will of their own voters, I checked to ensure I remembered correctly that the DNC created these “supers” following the 1968 Chicago Police Convention Democrat National Convention in which they nominated Hubert Humphrey, though he had not participated in a single primary nor garnered a single delegate.
(That anyone actually believes the Democrat party is democratic shows plainly how bad awful our Democrat-run public “education” industry is…)
Yup, 1968. But wait, there’s more…
Why were Dems in this pickle? Because the Democrat candidate with the most delegates, RFK, was assassinated prior to the National Convention, there was significant resistance and objection to the division of his delegates amongst the other candidates, and they had no process. So they fell-back on the then-VP, and got three days of violent rioting outside the convention hall, leading to the then-common appellation used above regarding the cops & rioters.
Imagine, then, my interest in the statement below from Prof “Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is a Historian and History Teacher. She holds a MA from Harvard University …”
“This outcome [nominating HHH] disturbed many Democrats including Senators Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy.”
Left unexplained by our history dudette is how a dead RFK was “disturbed” by a choice not only made after his death, but because of it.
Also unexplained: how an editor allowed that statement into History News [sic] dot org…
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/why-does-the-democratic-party-have-superdelegates