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Hurt and hope

“SCHISM, BITTERNESS, DEMANDS FOR VIOLENT solution, disenchantment with the way things are, fear of what may be—those are the forces, some would say the demons, that are loose in the U.S. . . .” That was the opening of TIME’s cover story on the Democratic Convention of 1968, an agony of violence and division that became an all-purpose reference point for the summer’s conflagrations. Now the violence in Baton Rouge, La.,

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