Have you noticed that nobody is surprised at the attempted assassination of Donald Trump? I’m only surprised it took this long for someone to do it, because for eight years now we’ve been told that Trump is an existential menace. You have to assume that eventually someone will take that seriously enough to act on it. Stochastic terrorism doesn’t only work on conservatives. And before you say “too bad he missed,” consider what happened to the Roman Republic. A cabal of senators tried to save it by killing Caesar, and it kicked off a civil war that ended in the dictatorship the cabal was trying to forestall.
I’m not linking to anything because reports will continue all day and anything that’s already been written will be out-of-date by this afternoon.
The floor’s yours.