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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Mainstreaming violence against a U.S. president

Las Vegas Review-Journal·Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Content Agency·6 months ago
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At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt — this time in full view of the Washington press corps.

The event was presented as a spirited night with Trump. After 11 years of avoiding the predominantly left-wing media event, he decided to revisit the dinner. He anticipated that he would be the object of ridicule inside the hall — and that he might see possible violence outside it.

Indeed, protesters ringed the hotel. In grimly prescient fashion, the usual sort of crowd that night was channeling John Wilkes Booth — sic semper tyrannis — with placards reading “Death to Tyrants.”

They again almost got their wish.

All three of the would-be Trump shooters — along with Charlie Kirk’s murderer — fit the predictable profile of arrested-development, deranged leftists.…

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