I am older than Prager but I think he is at least old enough to remember the 1960s.
. . . Frank Rich and the Paranoid Style
"Frank Rich has published a delusional article in New York Magazine under the title, "What Killed JFK: The Hate That Ended His Presidency is Eerily Familiar" in which he draws a straight line from Kennedy's assassination to imagined threats against President Obama arising from conservatives and the tea party movement."
I remember the liberals screaming that the conservatives' "climate of hate" and violence caused Oswald to assassinate JFK.. chief among the screaming nuts was NY Times employee James "Scotty" Reston.
IIRC one Times front page had Reston screaming about the conservative's "climate of hate" and next to it above the fold was a news article about Oswald's connection to "Fair Play for Cuba" which may have included a reminder that Oswald attempted to assassinate former U.S. Army Major General Edwin Walker, a man very active in the emerging modern conservative movement and a man very much hated by the likes of Reston.
A better subject is.. why do liberals do this?
Liberals seem to be always making excuses for and "understanding" the enemies of America.. is the cause of their malady the same as the mentally deranged Islamists, the centuries old practice of consanguineous marriages?
Mr. Prager might be interested in what Abe told me about today's Republic.
You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Which reminded me..
". . . some key [events] exacerbated the national debate, fraying trust, and national cohesion just a little more each time . . . The two-party system that had governed America . . . begin to fall apart . . . interest in politics took the place of all other forms of news-related entertainment . . . politicians were the celebrities . . . [Politics/ideology] was becoming such a habit, the reactions so automatic, that [journalists] taking sides on every news story became inevitable."
.. I just can't avoid thinking about this from for Love & Liberty by Robin Young and it's about 1857 America.