Palestinians rally for Land Day, which marks the killing of six Arab Israelis during 1976 demonstrations, near the Israeli border on March 30th, 2017. (Photo: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)A Saudi boy poses with a camel at the annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah on March 29th, 2017. (Photo: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images)Protestors of President Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban place photographs of refugees in rafts in front of the Trump Building in New York City on March 28th, 2017. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Iraqi children, displaced by fighting in western Mosul, look toward a security forces member on March 27th, 2017. (Photo: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 26th, 2017, during a nationwide protest against political corruption. (Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)
Many of the fault lines of American society have risen to the surface in the current presidential election. Observers see the resulting electoral volatility of 2008 mirroring watershed years such as 1928 and 1968.