Everyone cares about current outrages but not many of us care about old ones. I care a lot about this one…
Some pretty solid new evidence has emerged that while the 1968 Presidential Election was in full swing, then-President Johnson was on the verge of brokering a deal that might have ended the Vietnam War then and there. But since that might have helped Hubert Humphrey win the presidency, his rival Richard Nixon sabotaged that deal.
If that's true, that's one of the worst things a human being — and certainly a person who won the presidency — ever did.
It's Treason with a capital-T — real treason, not using the word the way we do now in politics as a charge any time any political opponent does anything you don't like. People found guilty of a lot less have been stood up against a wall and shot by a firing squad…and they got off easy.
Now, I understand that it's sometimes difficult to summon up emotions about long-ago deeds and long-dead people…but we do. The Holocaust still matters to some people. So does the assassination of John F. Kennedy and a few others. This one strikes me as something that's deserving of more than a shrug and a head-shake. But that's probably about all it will get from many Americans who are more upset about Steve Martin tweeting that he thought Carrie Fisher was beautiful.