"The Most Appealing Message From a Candidate Was Neither an Authoritarian Crackdown nor Universal Tolerance for Protesters"

"He took some heat for this. The New York Times editorial board chastised him for moving to the right. Ronald Reagan and Nixon each noted that he was sounding more like them (although their speeches somehow left out the part where RFK talked about endemic poverty and a massive jobs program). But reporters began to notice an odd phenomenon: The same audiences who spoke about cracking down on demonstrators and who expressed admiration for Wallace also said they were considering voting for Kennedy.
"Why? Because, the answer came back, 'He’s tough. He put crooks in jail.'"

Jeff Greenfield at Politico writes about "Robert Kennedy's Lesson on Political Violence That Joe Biden Needs to Learn."