What disturbs me most of all about the attempted assassination of President Trump, this time allegedly by Cole Allen, is that it seemed to leave little impact on the public consciousness. When the shot rang out in the field in Pennsylvania and the bullet grazed Trump’s ear, the whole world seemed to stop and mark the moment. The images from that day became iconic. This time, even Donald Trump seemed unusually ready to continue on with the party. Has political assassination become background music or white noise in our political culture?
Not quite, but close, I realize with some horror. This assassination attempt was treated with almost a level of public boredom because the public has already seen this before. It was a retweet, a re-post, a share. This was an assassination attempt as meme.
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