There is hardly any political issue on which there is a minimum consensus between the two major American parties. The great exception is the defense of Israel. The extraordinary credit of 26.4 billion dollars to supply them with new weapons was approved without major problems in the House of Representatives, while we already know what it cost to obtain the corresponding one for Ukraine. And yet, few doubt that who has the most to lose from the current student revolts in the face of the next presidential elections It’s Joe Biden. In part, because a connection is beginning to be established between these protests and those that inflamed American campuses in ’68. The result in the presidential elections that took place after these riots allowed Nixon to be elected by a narrow margin against Humphrey, but the racist far-right candidate, George Wallace, received almost 14% of the vote. For many, this surprising turn to the right after the previous Democratic hegemony meant a considerable realignment of North American politics and was a clear reaction to the youth riots in the streets.
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