According to Jeff St. Clair in a recent Roaming Charges there, Cockburn thought that Jerry Ford was the best president since FDR. It appears to be serious. That said, Jerry was less a warmonger than the others, overall. Of course, he had shorter service.
As for Jeff's claim of Secret Service incompetence and its being traceable to Trump? Doesn't this ignore the "whores" under Obama? Between the JFK assassination and that incident, it had plenty of other scandals and screwups. It also ignores that Congress has repeatedly refused to ease the Secret Service burden. A good idea would be splitting the Protective Division from the rest of the Secret Service as well as providing more funding.
As for the USA USA USA after assassinations? St. Clair misses on the angle that gunz are one of the few things made in America, and also the claim that all gunz are made in America is not true. Many Glocks come from Austria. Ditto, many Heckler and Koch come from Germany.
On both of these two points, St. Clair is drifting toward becoming a Blue Anon type of Never Trumper.
Finally, re Friday's date (I originally had "yesterday's" as I was going to post it on Saturday), and nothing about May Day in the piece? Like mine?