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The campus is coming for Joe Biden

As in 1968, the Democrat risks being the candidate of chaos and war

A cartoon drawing of Joe Biden and a donkey being yelled at by anti-war protestors.
Illustration: Kal

A connoisseur of radical chic can find plenty to catalogue these days while observing pro-Palestine protests on Ivy League campuses: the black or red keffiyehs, the conga drums, the folk songs, the kitschy signs (“Dykes 4 Divestment”) and the showy Arabic pronunciations of “Gaza”, so reminiscent of the Spanish-ish inflection given to “Nicaragua” by pro-Sandinista activists back in the 1980s.

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