This is another of our rare descents from the empyrean into the muck of current affairs; apologies. Still the observation below is apt perennially, and not only at this moment of history.
There has been plenty of commentary from all sides about the failed assassination of President Trump last weekend, and there will be lots more. The commentary seems to be settling toward two termini: the whole thing was a hoax (we hear this from elements both of Left and of Right (such elements on the Left distrust the Right; such elements on the Right distrust everything (and thank heaven for them for that, after all)); or, the government protection of the President from quite a real attempt to kill him was either egregiously incompetent or - so many things lined up in the assassin's favor that this option seems not mad - intended.
The government protection, NB. I.e., the government protection of the man who (putatively at least) embodies the apparently quite vigorous and numerous and well-armed segment of American culture most inimical to ... the government.
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