Elections in the US are close. After almost a decade of chasing or holding the White House, Donald Trump’s oddities are priced in while Harris remains ill-defined and half-tested.
A month has passed since the near-assassination of the 45th and, who knows, 47th US president. When did you last think or talk about it? When did you last see the photo of Donald Trump’s raised and defiant hand, which promised at the time to be one of those icons that cross so deep into mass culture that a Warholian silkscreen might be made of it?
I don’t mean to suggest that the world’s most famous outpatient has been somehow short-changed for his brush with death. The point is rather this: the transience and tenuousness of almost all political moments.
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Financial Times
Janan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.
