Victor Davis Hanson
We still do not know whether most culpability for the failed security during the Trump attempted assassination was the fault of the Secret Service, the FBI, local law enforcement, or all three combined.
Instead of clarity, we are witnessing mutual recrimination and absurd blame gaming. The takeaway from such utter incompetence was the Secret Service Director’s whine that the assassin’s perch atop a slightly sloped roof was too dangerous for the Secret Service to use. The Director should have resigned the day after her agency’s total systems collapse. How a Kimberly Cheatle was ever hired to run the disaster-plagued Secret Service remains a mystery.
Tragically, there is no reason to assume that Trump may not encounter further risks to his person.
Remember, we have experienced nine years of leftist hysteria since 2015, in which scores of celebrities, politicos, and media figures have publicly boasted of wishing to physically injure Trump, and even to imagine ways of killing him.
The mainstream media, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and the Biden campaign and administration fixated on dehumanizing Trump as a Hitlerian figure out to destroy democracy.
That false premise of an existential threat has justified almost any means necessary to neuter him, whether Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, the first impeachment, attempts to remove him from states’ ballots, and lawfare waged in five different civil and criminal courtrooms.
The result is that we have so lowered the bar on the acceptable that there will still be hundreds of unhinged who believe that they will achieve lasting heroic status for eliminating a second “Hitler.”
Even more disastrously, after the sorry spectacle of security on July 13, any of these unhinged may be further encouraged, rightly or wrongly, by the ease with which an amateurish 20-year-old so easily fired away at the president.
At the present time, we have created a dangerous scenario, in which the insane Trump haters believe 1) they will be rewarded forever in the leftwing pantheon should any succeed where Thomas Matthew Crooks failed, and 2) under the scandal-ridden Secret Service, it is possible now to get near Trump in a fashion never dreamed of before concerning an ex-president and leading presidential candidate.
Let us hope we have seen the end of the would-be assassin and murderer Crooks and also the end of this age of madness. Meanwhile, we all must prepare to prevent the worst.
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