Speaking of Vidal: not sure why some historically ignorant journalists suddenly decided to pretend they were experts in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, but Vidal was the journalist who best knew McVeigh. This iconic Vanity Fair essay is amazing: https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2001/9/gore-vidal-the-meaning-of-timothy-mcveigh

That essay by Vidal — a lifelong leftist, but a critically minded & informed one — goes way beyond Oklahoma City/McVeigh to Waco, Ruby Ridge, CIA/FBI lies, & the civil liberties erosions of the 90s in the name of “domestic terrorism.” Vidal would never survive Twitter. Read that.

If Vidal were writing in the age of Twitter, he’d last about a week. Some op-ed writer with the NYT or WPost would take a snippet from an article of his (probably that Vanity Fair essay), proclaim he’s a white supremacist, the tweet would go viral, and that’d be the end of that. https://twitter.com/cdndmf/status/1315337435287490561