No honest accounting of America’s foetid climate can ignore the fact that the former president himself is the country’s most influential exponent of political violence.
It is not just Donald Trump who dodged a bullet. Half an inch to the left and the projectile that grazed Trump’s ear would have turned him into a martyr. There is no telling what his death would have unleashed.
As it is, the reprehensible attempted assassination of Trump will have profound reverberations for US democracy. Within seconds of being blanketed by Secret Service agents, Trump was yelling “fight, fight, fight” to the crowd.
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Financial Times
Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times. He writes about American politics and the economy.
