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Digital publisher Quartz and others recently brought attention to a 1964 political ad that seemed especially prescient as Donald Trump began to close in on the GOP presidential nomination. Fifty-two years later, Hillary Clinton's campaign has effectively remade the same ad in its latest broadside against Trump on the eve of this year's GOP convention in Cleveland.
In the original spot, created by Lyndon B. Johnson's re-election campaign, lifelong moderate Republican Bill Bogert explained why he could not in good conscience vote for an "irresponsible" candidate like 1964 GOP nominee Barry Goldwater, stating, "This man scares me."
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