Historian and political pundit Amanda Nelson posted on social media this morning that she "kinda [doesn't] care" about the incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night:
I kinda don't care about this. And that...is weird.
My first thought was, "I hope everyone is OK," and then when everyone was OK, it was, "this is so annoying."
Was [the assailant] trying to hurt Trump, or was he trying to hurt one of the dozens of really, really hated, corrupt, weird drug addicts that were in that room? This is an administration that draws out the worst and least-well people to the national stage. And I guess all I have is a shrug. And I feel weird about that.
Julia Ioffe took issue with all the (completely unharmed) elite journalists, protected by elite law enforcement, who acted as if they'd survived a school shooting in their stand-ups from the ballroom.
Jennifer Rubin said the incident "reminds us, for the umpteenth time, that gun violence has reached epidemic proportions:"
We do not have to tolerate this level of fear and destruction; we made a choice to prioritize guns over people, and the results are as horrifying as one might expect.
The prevalence of political violence specifically should not numb us nor habituate us to accept this as the new normal. Whatever the motives of the alleged shooter, we have entered an era in which unstable men (almost always men) with guns try to be political assassins.
Rather than spin false, partisan tales of responsibility for violence (or spend time going after Donald Trump’s enemies or attacking progressive organizations), our federal government needs a level of maturity that has been entirely absent of late. More than ever, we need responsible, professional federal law enforcement officials to address the real threats to our safety and security. The contrast between brave agents on the scene who performed with remarkable speed and efficiency and the upper ranks of the Trump regime who are in positions of extreme importance and power could not be greater.
For my part, I am deeply troubled that I cannot trust this administration enough to believe anything they say about this incident. I believe someone tried to get into the ballroom, that the US Secret Service prevented him from doing so, that a USSS agent got shot in his ballistic vest and fortunately wasn't harmed. But whatever Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche or US Attorney Jeanine Pirro (DC) has to say about this, I won't believe them. (I also don't believe this was a staged event; this really happened. Let's tamp down the left-wing crazy too, OK?)
That is what this ship of fools has done to the United States. They have, possibly deliberately, destroyed the credibility of the United States government under their management so much that what should really be a serious event is just...not.
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