Bill Clinton has an op-ed in today’s New York Times marking the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. There’s something unsavory about the op-ed, as Ann Althouse notes, the overall effect is “here is Bill Clinton using his special prominence today to unleash a political attack to push back a populist movement that threatens his political party.”

While I would agree with the general thought that violence is anathema to civic virtue, our 42nd president seems to have a very poor grasp of what civic virtue meant in regards to our first president: