New York Times opinion section comes unhinged ahead of the 2020 election

After all the suffering America has endured, it is the height of privilege to suggest this country is now irreversibly tarnished because an offensive, impulsive man is president. It is the height of privilege to know what we know about U.S. history and assert nevertheless that the past four years have been uniquely dark and damaging. Imagine being old enough to have lived through the assassinations of the Kennedys and leaders of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, the Nixon presidency, the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention, and so on and actually suggest that the Trump administration is this lowest point in this country s history. Imagine knowing even a little about chattel slavery, the American Civil War, the Indian Removal Act, and the illegal bombing campaign in Cambodia, and still assert, with a straight face, that America s innocence, apathy, and generosity were not lost until Hillary Clinton blew a winnable election.

via www.washingtonexaminer.com

I remember when Honest Abe was shot. That was a grim day. Actually, I do remember the 1968 Democratic convention. I watched a lot of it on our old black and white. And of course JFK’s assassination. We plaid Shoot the President until the sisters made us stop and marched us off to a special Mass.