The Man in the Arena
The Man in the Arena
Seven thoughts as the RNC gets under way in the wake of an attempted assassination of Donald Trump
There’s no rest for the weary in our troubled polity.
Today the Republican National Convention gets underway in Milwaukee, just two days following an attempted assassination of the party’s nominee. I started and deleted a few posts on Sunday as I tried to bring my thoughts and feelings about this event into some kind of coherent whole for you, my dear readers. But I failed. My mind remains too unsettled to offer any single takeaway from this weekend’s shocking events. So here, instead, are a series of seven disconnected ideas prompted by what we’ve all just lived through and what we’re likely to see during the remainder of this week and those that lie ahead.
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