Ken Shepherd showed me how Aaron Brown greeted the latest resurfacing of the Sixties Wednesday on CNN:

“Kathy Boudin, in a way, represents the darkness of the ’60s, that young idealists could turn into monsters. Her supporters say she’s done her time, realizes now the wrong that she’s done, and channeled a good part of her idealism into work in prison. Many family members of the victim still see a monster, and monsters, they say, belong in prison.”

This, as a whole, is quite balanced (Brown also quoted a relative of someone her gang killed hoping she’s truly reformed.) But I really choke at the use of the word “idealism,” that radical leftists who wanted to overthrow the U.S. government, shred the Constitution, and give us some Lumumba-worshiping Marxist regime can be defined as “idealists.” The media too often use it as a synonym for liberalism or radicalism, but rarely use it to define the well-grounded idealism of the Founders.