I’m glad Trump wasn’t shot.
Both men who attempted to assassinate him were deeply engaged in MAGA. The second one was a wandering, burned-out gadfly, a disillusioned Trump loyalist who had turned his disappointment into violent rage. He dressed in star-spangled shirts, scarves, and hats, and was a fanatic for Trump until he was a fanatic against him. In other words, a fanatic.
The first one was barely adult, dabbled in Democratic and Republican politics, but ran with a MAGA crowd and died wearing a T-shirt from a gun channel on YouTube. The kind where they train all day to shoot people.
That both men had unlimited access to extraordinary firepower is too routine to be even mentioned. Likewise, Trump’s hypocrisy in claiming that hateful rhetoric from the—
traitorous election-rigging immigrant smuggling anti-white racist sick Marxist communist fascist Dumb as a Rock crazy incompetent radical left lunatic stupid fake loser scum vermin animal enemy of the people
—Democrats was responsible for the two attempts.
Trump sells delusional fears, and a non-existent nightmare of a dark, dystopian America with mandatory homosexuality and cat-eating foreigners. He offers a solution: punishment, threats, revenge, and violent domination.
Citation
The Washington Post on Trump’s imaginary America: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/23/trump-imaginary-world/