While America tries to process what happened at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the chaotic images of what could have been a mass casualty event will be impossible to forget.
The horror-stricken faces of men and women huddling under tables, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sprinting down the hallway with his security detail, the sound of trays clattering to the ground as SWAT teams leapt over tables and drew their rifles are etched on all of our minds.
But as grateful as everyone is that a massacre of some of the country’s highest-ranking leaders was thwarted, incredibly serious questions remain — not the least of which is how we got here in the first place.
To everyone’s relief, the 31-year-old gunman who raced through the magnetometers was tackled and subdued before he could kill anyone.
Still, the harsh reality remains: this is the third serious attempt on the president’s life in less than two years. We are officially, as National Review’s editorswarn, in the grip of a deadly insanity as a nation.
“The feverish opposition to Trump — who is another Hitler, according to the left, and might be the Antichrist … provides a permission slip for sundry fanatics and losers to resort to political violence.”
Meanwhile, throwaway posts about lowering the temperature and “ending the hostility” abound from Democrats, who have yet to acknowledge the lethal environment their government shutdown created.
Instead, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) took to Fox News to try to paint the violence as a bipartisan problem.
“Listen,” Jeffries told Shannon Bream on Sunday, “I think that here in America we can have strong disagreements, but it’s important for us to agree to strongly disagree without being disagreeable with each other.
And it is certainly the case that violence is never the answer, whether it’s targeted at the Right, the Left, or the center.”
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