The Great, Unrecognized Political Realignment

This is similar to when America at long last threw off another attempted social engineering. Prohibition. The Great Awokening was despised and tolerated for about as long as Prohibition, then the Normies chucked the whole thing.

I don't disagree with the major thesis of the article, but I am saddened by the use of the JFK assassination as an example of 'gaslighting'. The basic mechanics of the shooting are extremely clear, simple and entirely unremarkable to anyone well versed in the particular rifle and ammunition used. The gaslighting is the authors of shoddy, sensationalistic books which invented controversy from nothing. Whenever I read about someone referring to the JFK assassination and the "magic bullet", I am certain that the author is very ignorant about ballistics, rifles, bullet designs, etc. There is absolutely NOTHING at all 'magical' about the behavior of the bullets in the JFK assassination. Yes, the particular cartridge was a bit archaic (1890 design), so it behaved a bit differently than later cartridges, but any scholar of rifle ballistics can find that essentially identical bullets were used with huge success to kill large numbers of elephants by a hunter named WDM Bell, with brain shots. Look it up. Bell used 6.5mm and 7mm military cartridges with long, heavy, fully jacketed round nosed bullets to kill over 1,000 elephants in around 1900-1910 era. Such brain shots on elephants were possible because the particular bullet design, a round nosed,full metal jacket bullet, with weight which is at the upper range of normal weights for that bore diameter created unusually great penetration. This is different than later designed cartridges with pointed bullets where the bullet will yaw and tumble after perhaps 6-10 inches of penetration. I won't bore you any longer with more tech details, but the hard fact is that the penetration of Kennedy's neck/chest area, then Connally's chest, wrist and thigh is easily replicated then and now with ballistic gelatin testing. The only 'magic' is that book writers who needed to create a controversy to sell their books, with a combination of ballistic ignorance and unbridled yellow journrnalistic fervor, were able to sell the idea that this behavior required magic. No, there is no magic, just a somewhat unusual bullet design, but one which was absolutely standard for Italian military rifles from 1890 to the 1940. Oswald used a military surplus Italian rifle, and surplus military ammunition.

Every time I hear the term, "gaslighting," a picture of Maxine Waters flashes into my head. It's not a pleasant experience. Thanks for that analysis, #2. The conspiracy theories still abound but with the alleged Oswald connections to Cuba, Russia and the CIA, writers feel compelled to make something more complicated out of that stew. He was probably required to make simple shots like that just to graduate boot training at Paris Island.

Re #3, I nver hav eargued anything about Oswald's motovation, only the basic mechanics of the shooting. It was a short shot for a rifle, 60 yards, the target was moving....but directly away, so no lateral motion, and the bullets would behave that way. BUT.....did Oswald get support from Cuba, CIA, etc.? i tend to think not, but these are not physical facts that can be tested on a range -- so they will be forever unknown. One interesting question......Since Connally had been the Secretary of the Navy until he was elected to the governoship of Texas, and Oswald had repeatedly written to SecNav pleading for his dishonorable discharge be upgraded to 'general discharge', is is possible that Oswald's target was Connally? It is important to remind younger people that in those days essentially EVERY male had a DD214 (discharg papers) because of universal service, and essentially all employers excluded dishonorable discharge holders from consideration for employment. Oswald had a wife and young daughter to feed and with no welfare state, and extreme difficulty finding any job....he may have harbored extreme hatred towards the 'system' that was keeping his family in poverty. Perhaps this was his motivatoin to take his $10 rifle (yes, those old Carcanos sold that cheaply then) and try for some 'payback'. Just another thought to toss around. We'll never know motivation, but the mechanics as set forth in the Warren Commission Report are accurate, IMO. And I have and do own this model rifle, and have duplicated the shots many times in both speed and accuracy....not difficult at all to accomplish in spite of the book authors claims.

Zigrid is missed.

Excellent article. Thanks for posting. I recall when Tucker Carlson was new to CNN and adopted his "sig" (unique prop, hairstyle, etc. of a Vaudeville comedian) to be his bow ties. His was muddied up conservative position, what we would call today, "RINO." I couldn't stand him and refused to watch his show. He's an animal of the Beltway, and I don't think I'd ever trust the version he's emulating today, or the one tomorrow either. If the left, especially the ever-incompetent, Congressional Black Caucus, gaslights about Charlie Kirk being a "racist," or a "white-supremacist" then they have to explain the very inconvenient fact regarding why it is that so many American blacks showed up to his Memorial service in Glendale, AZ, especially considering how the State of Arizona has one of the lowest demographics of blacks.