The James Dean Deification of Charlie Kirk
News Source : The New Republic
News Summary
- James Dean died 70 years ago on September 30, 1955, in a car crash in California.
- Bob Greene: His death sparked a national outpouring of mourning almost unprecedented in U.S. history.
- Greene: The right is trying to turn Charlie Kirk into a MAGA martyr and saint, but this effort is hollow and likely to fail.
- He says the reaction to Dean's death has become a kind of madness, which has spread to the highest levels of society, including the White House.
If you worked for a movie magazine and wanted to write about James Dean in 1956, you needed to toe the Warner party line or lose access to Warner Bros. movies and stable of stars, the lifeblood of an [+2047 chars]
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