Nearly as fast as yesterday’s tragedy at the Holocaust Memorial Museum could unfold here in Washington, DC came attempts to label the perpetrator within our left/right political spectrum. The obvious problem with this is that the individual in question is himself far outside the mainstream of politics in America. His antisemitism, his racist beliefs, his denial of the holocaust and of the 9/11 attacks thankfully are not at home in either of our major political parties.
Perhaps instead of focusing on the all consuming hatred of an evil man we should be memorializing Stephen T. Johns, the security guard killed while defending the visitors and staff of the museum.
A spokesman for House Minority Leader Boehner said it best,“Trying to exploit this awful tragedy to score political points – from the right or the left – is simply grotesque.” (Politico).
Hear, hear.
