The still images of the assassination attempt...tell another story. Blood running from Mr. Trump's ear to his lips testifies to how close the former president had come to death. His raised fist offers a highly legible refusal to capitulate. To the television cameras, everything was pandemonium. In the lens of the still camera, the horror of the attack was translated into embodiments of authority, defiance and near martyrdom.
I understand the tendency to hunt for visual analogies when extraordinary events like this take place. The American flag billowing behind Mr. Trump's bloodied face in...photos may superficially recall a Romantic tradition of bloodied national heroes, real or allegorical.
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