The FBI discovered in the bushes two backpacks, an AK-47-style firearm with a scope and a GoPro camera suggesting a plan to kill Trump on his own golf course and film it for all the world to witness. This is just another incident highlighting the unprecedented upheaval and fears of violence in this campaign year.
Sebastian Gorka, a former Trump aide, complained at the recent Moms for Liberty conference: We're seven weeks away and it's as if it never happened. It's been memory-holed, more effectively than George Orwell could ever have imagined.
Danger and instability have become a feature not a bug of US political life, illustrated yet again by an apparent assassination attempt on a presidential candidate.
It is true that what happened that day in Pennsylvania should be remembered, not for partisan reasons, nor as evidence that Trump is protected by God, but because of what it resurfaced: a nation with a long history of political violence.
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