Today marks the 46th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. Back in 2007, I interviewed James Piereson about his then-new book, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution, which looked at the enormous cognitive dissonance that descended upon the left in its wake.
And it may be permanent: Piereson has a new article comparing the left’s inability to process who shot JFK with the motivations of Nadal Hassan, the Fort Hood shooter at the Weekly Standard. Click here to read it.
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James Piereson’s book is a must read. John F. Kennedy was clearly murdered by a convinced Communist. It is shocking how many people have embraced the lie that he was a victim of right-wing extremist and corrupt corporations. I will peruse Camelot and the Cultural Revolution again this very evening. It is on a shelf only a few feet away from my desk.
A large part of today’s hate on the left still stems from the fact that not only was JFK murdered in Texas, but a Texan succeeded him in the White House and thereby blocked the paths to power that many of the intellectuals who had tied themselves to the Kennedys thought they were going to get. It explains, in no small part, the pathological hatred for George W. Bush on the left even before the Florida recount — just being a conservative Republican from that state was enough to set a lot of people off (go back to the late 60s, and even the huge negative fan base the Dallas Cowboys have can be explained in part by the team’s success coming to the forefront in the years immediately after Kennedy’s death, and how much northeastern liberals, including and especially the sportswriting community, disliked the idea of anything Texas-related being successful. It wasn’t just the team, it was the city and the state where the team was based that fueled the passion).