Overnight News: The election was stolen? I’m so old, I lived through the last one that wasn’t.

True fact: I am a certified antique. I am but old in years, never in mind, but it remains that I was born in the midst of the last century.

Among my earliest memories is the JFK funeral on TV. I had just turned four years old, so what I saw was more dots that connections. An example: The broadcasters kept talking about the body, so I wondered what had happened to the head – a puerile false distinction that turned out to be an impossibly prescient conspiracy theory!

And as it turns out, the Kennedy assassination marked the end of authentic America, the country rhapsodized in the textbooks of the era. The Deep State put everyone on notice – oppose us and die – and nothing about the Federal government has been uncompromised since.

It is right to say that the 2020 election was overtly and obviously stolen, but it is more right to say that no American election has mattered since November 22, 1963.

In other news:

Spengler: US Inflation more horrible than Washington admits: Shelter inflation is running at 10%-15% a year, not the reported 3.4%, and that’s a third of household budgets.

City Journal: Buttigieg’s ‘systemic racism’ claim is the leftist myth about Robert Moses. Moses prototyped many Deep State ideas in New York State. He is the archetype of the Ci intellectual-tyrant.

Steven Malanga: States Versus Cities: As local officials plunge into controversial policy areas, they clash increasingly with governors and legislative leaders.