Donald Trump shooting: Gun was primed to fire by violence endemic to US politics
Politics tamfitronics The shots that rang out over the agricultural show grounds in Butler, Pennsylvania did not come from nowhere. They came from a gun that has been primed to fire for years. If he were given to self-reflection, Donald Trump might even be asking some difficult questions of himself about how America has reached this dismal pass. But he isn’t, of course.Instead, heading into the Republican convention starting on Monday in Milwaukee, he emerges from the attempted assassination as a divinely ordained not-quite martyr who survived to tell the tale and “make America great again”. More than his words, it is the imagery of the shooting that will be seared onto the collective memory, set to be republished and rebroadcast incessantly by his supporters and sympathetic media between now and November 5, and beyond....
