The lunatic fringe

Why have fringe kooks like this — who raged against Bush when all the cool kids were doing it — not been placated by Obama’s policies? For the same reason that Oswald, who embraced Marxism during the Eisenhower era, was not placated by John F. Kennedy’s liberalism: It’s not really about politics for these kooks.

Squeaky Fromme, Sara Jane Moore, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Radical Impulse