Authored by James Howard Kunstler,

". . . this time the story has escaped the narrative guardrails and some real reckoning looms."

- Jeff Childers

Unwittingly, that New York Times headline is a wondrous case of the self-solving mystery.

You come here to understand the many social and political mysteries of the day. I will attempt to unravel this hairball.

Most obviously, the suspect, now dead, in Wednesday's Minneapolis school shooting was not a "her."

He was a him, a 23-year-old male, Robert Westman, who had been pretending to be a female for some years since undergoing puberty, with the encouragement of his parents and the cultural leaders of his city, including Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, backed by the expressed principles of the national Democratic Party.

The essence of all that was a gigantic game of pretend, a broad and deliberate dissociation from reality for the purpose of maintaining a political racketeering operation, which is what the Democratic Party had become.