Republicans' Feigned Outrage Must Not Be Allowed To Buoy Trump

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Jeffrey C. Isaac is James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include: 'Democracy in Dark Times'(1998); 'The Poverty of Progressivism: The Future of American Democracy in a Time of Liberal Decline' (2003), and 'Arendt, Camus, and Modern Rebellion' (1994).

It is now known that the man who shot Donald Trump on Saturday was a 20-year old registered Republican named Thomas Matthew Crooks. Whatever his motives, the rounds Crooks fired exploded into an already incendiary political situation, furnishing Trump and his MAGA supporters with further ammunition to attack the Democratic party and, by posing as innocent victims of nefarious enemies, liberal democracy itself.Sen. J.D.

but it's not easy, because we have millions and millions of people in our country who shouldn't be here, dangerous people . . . criminals . . . drug dealers . . . ' Seconds later, celebrating his 'great borders,' the shots rang out.Trump was shot while just beginning to whip his crowd into a frenzy of resentment against all of those responsible for 'stealing' both the 2020 election and the country itself.

 

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