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President Donald Trump on his visit to St John’s Church across from the White House on Monday; right: Dr Martin Luther King Jr at a rally in 1963.

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STATESIDE: In ’68 when America burned, voters turned to Nixon - now Trump will be praying they’ll do the same for him

As America writhes in agony over the death of George Floyd and its bloody aftermath, politicians, pundits, journalists, observers and just plain citizens are trying to make sense of all the chaos, confusion and heartbreak. One way of doing this is to compare what’s happening today with sometime in the nation’s past. Since the US survived that comparable period, it will survive the current collection of calamities. Or so the thinking goes.

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