Secret Service director resigns
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I’ve got somewhat mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it can’t be denied that the assassination attempt involved a massive multi-party operational failure: When somebody is observed acting suspiciously for at least half an hour beforehand, then manages to crawl onto a roof 150 yards away from a presidential candidate with a high-powered rifle, and is spotted by several people doing so, and then is confronted on the roof by a police officer (who bravely turned his tail and fled), and STILL manages to get off a bunch of shots at the candidate, well . . . that’s not really defensible.
However, a couple of mitigating factors:
(1) The kind of outdoor Off Brand Triumph of the Will rallies Trump favors are much, much harder to secure completely than indoor events, as this incident illustrates.
(2) If your political career consists of whipping people into a violent frenzy about the total corruption of the entire system, in a nation with 300 million guns, many of them high-powered rifles, floating around, there’s a certain ironic predictability in one of those unhinged consumers of the rhetoric you’ve done so much to nurture eventually trying to blow your own head off.