Obscenity prosecutions of comedians escalated even as national politics shifted liberal

Evidence

November 3, 1964: Lyndon Johnson was elected in a landslide. The next day Lenny Bruce was convicted, essentially for using the word “shit” in public, and sent for psychiatric evaluation. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 589

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing article on immodesty moral panics as class/identity signaling — Bruce’s ‘shit’ conviction is the comedy-world parallel to dress-code prosecutions.
• SEED: Angle: the same week America elected its most liberal president, a comedian was jailed for a scatological word — the timing reframes ‘the Sixties’ as a clash between electoral and bohemian freedoms.