Everything this article said is bullshit.

For example, Gore Vidal said that Timothy McVeigh was part of a larger network of right wingers.

It’s in Vanity Fair, not exactly a fringe publication.

vanityfair.com

Americans were fed the story of Timothy McVeigh’s trial and execution as a simple, unquestionable narrative: he was guilty, he was evil, and he acted largely alone. Gore Vidal’s 1998 Vanity Fair essay on the erosion of the U.S. Bill of Rights caused McVeigh to begin a three-year correspondence with Vidal, prompting an examination of certain evidence that points to darker truths—a conspiracy willfully ignored by F.B.I. investigators, and a possible cover-up by a government waging a secret war on the liberty of its citizens.

Gore Vidal will be missed. America is turned over to the musings of Sean Hannitys and Rush and it is a well deserved and self inflicted fate.