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Do you know that there are schools that train children your age to be suicide bombers?
— Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ), quoted by the Washington Post, talking to a classroom of second and third graders.
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Number of staff left on the Rick Perry campaign in Iowa: “The Republican from Texas has whittled his staff in Iowa to one paid operative amid continuing fund-raising struggles … Mr. Perry led in the polls for a stretch during his first presidential bid four years ago. He spent significant time boning up on foreign policy and getting himself in physical shape for the grinds of the campaign trail,” the New York Times reports.
On this all can agree: Strange happenings are afoot in the 2016 presidential cycle, the kind that leave experts scratching their heads. Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, talk of a third-party run—we’ve never seen anything quite like it, right? … Except that we have. It happened in 1968, and if you are seeking precedents for this cycle, that year’s momentous presidential election is a good place to look. Here’s something further to consider: The 1968 race so shook up the political system that we’re still feeling its aftershocks today, more than a generation later. There is at least a chance this year’s race could become a similarly realigning campaign.
