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This week, a would-be assassin aimed a rifle at Donald Trump through the fence at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Secret Service saw the man and shot at him; he was later arrested. The alleged shooter has a long record of clear-cut, left-wing hatred: He has opined that Trump ought to be killed by Iran, he has only donated to Democrats since 2019, and his truck sports a Biden/Harris bumper sticker.
ThismakesthesecondassassinationattemptonTrumpintwomonths.Trumphasnowbeensubjectedtoasmanynear-shootingsduringthatperiodasKamalaHarrishassolointerviews.
Why?
Theanswerisobvious:Americaisalargecountry,withalargenumberofunstablepeople.Overheatedrhetoricgenerallyappealstotheunhinged;theunhingedmaytakeseriouslythatrhetoricandattemptviolenceasaconsequence.Thatdoesn’tmeanthatthosewhospoutsuchrhetoricarecriminallyresponsiblefortheactionsoftheviolent.Itdoesmeanthatwhenthetemperatureisraisedonthepoliticalstove,itbecomesmorepredictableforthepottoboilover.
WehavenowbeensubjectedtoafulldecadeoftalkabouthowDonaldTrumpisafull-scalethreatt
