RE: CAPOTE

There was a time when the American Left was as genuinely patriotic as the Right. For all the things I may disagree with Bobby Kennedy over, for example, his patriotism certainly was never in doubt.

But when did the "my country, always wrong" wing of the Left sprout?

My knee-jerk reaction is to blame it on the Boomers, which I am wont to do. But it must go further back than that. There's George McGovern, for example. Jimmy "my fellow Americans, you make me sick" Carter. Ramsey Clarke (though he may just be a genuine nut). And others.