Sunday, July 14, 2024

A Bad Turn

We were already having a bad election year when somebody identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20 years old, tried to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania Saturday.

The FBI, as the lead investigative agency, will conduct a criminal investigation and a theory of the case may emerge quickly, but it will be just that — a theory. And that probably will not satisfy the portion of the public that embraces conspiracy theories as the more palatable explanations for events such as these.

Those of us who prefer fact-based explanations will just have to wait, while hoping this does not unleash yet another escalation in the political rhetoric of hate, fear, calls for retribution and anti-democratic authoritarianism.

Meanwhile, I’m afraid a very bad year just got immeasurably worse.

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