It's Thursday, August 1st, 2024.

I'm Albert Moller.

Welcome to the new season of the briefing,

a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. of the to know, is this an unusual season of developments or is this a particularly significant period of history?

Are we looking at something unprecedented here?

Or is it just a matter of impression?

No, it's not just a matter of impression.

Over the course of the last say, 50, 60, even 40 days,

we have seen in this country an utter transformation of the political landscape.

Now, that's an exaggeration if you mean... of the

transformation of the political landscape. We're resetting say the last half century.

It is on the other hand extremely accurate

if you consider what we're looking to in the November presidential election.

We really are looking at a changed landscape.

And it's changed in a way that is unprecedented.

We discussed in the special edition of this has happened in presidential history in the United States.

We discussed the fact that nothing like this has happened in presidential history in the United States.

Even in 1968, when then President Linden Johnson withdrew from the race, he did so before the primary season and gave his party the opportunity to have a real contest in terms of who would succeed him as the Democratic nominee in 1968.

That turned out, ironically enough to be his own Vice President Hubert Humphrey, but Humphrey had

to win the nomination.

He wasn't just designated with it. As a matter of fact, back in 1968, in a way that many people considered disloyal, then President Lyndon Johnson in withdrawing from the race did not even indicate he was giving his support to his own vice president.

Humphrey had to go out and gain the nomination.

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