Mark Steyn’s superb obit of Eugene McCarthy, which ran on dead tree in The Atlantic last month is now online. It begins:
If you strike at the king, you have to kill him. And, amazingly, Eugene McCarthy did. On March 12th 1968, the not exactly barnstorming Senator got 42.4% of Democratic votes in the New Hampshire primary and denied the sitting President even a majority of his own party
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