Thirty years ago, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh parked a truck packed with explosives next to Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion murdered 168 people, including 15 small children at a day care center in the building. McVeigh and his accomplice, Terry Nichols, were arrested, tried and convicted; McVeigh was executed six years later, while Nichols was sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms in federal prison, the longest ever for an individual.
McVeigh was as far from the conservative mainstream as you can imagine — an evil madman who employed deadly violence to destroy innocent people. But the dastardly attack occurred only months after liberals suffered one of their worst-ever electoral defeats, losing the House of Representatives after 40 years of uninterrupted control. Democrats blamed what CBS’s Dan Rather (January 4, 1995)…
