Get it? The rancid political culture of Dallas that was responsible for the death of Kennedy lives on today in the Tea Party, which needs to be stopped before it kills again.
Making the same connection in the San Francisco Chronicle, Joe Garofoli writes, “Now, extreme speech like the kind heard in Dallas 50 years ago has become mainstream—particularly on the right, amplified by social media and encouraged by gridlocked political leaders looking to win the political minute.”
Thus, the Tea Party is retroactively tarred with one of the most shocking crimes in U.S. history.
There are at least two problems with all this. The first is that cities don’t kill people. Neither does political hostility. There was plenty of kookery, racism and ugliness in Dallas circa 1963—and much derision and abuse of Kennedy—but none of those things picked up a rifle and shot the president of the United States.
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