It’s been 56 years since America faced a season as unsettling—and as apt to change politics
Former President donald trumP has now survived at least two credible assassination attempts this election year. The latest, on Sept. 15 at one of his golf clubs in Florida, was not as close as the one that bloodied him at a Butler, Pa., campaign rally on July 13. But it was nonetheless a real and immediate threat—a fully loaded assault rifle allegedly held by Ryan Wesley Routh from 400 yards in search of the leader of the Republican Party, with the potential to upend American politics and history.
It was just the latest in a series of events unsettling the nation in a summer of disruption. Two weeks before the Butler attempt on Trump’s life, President Joe Biden had triggered a crisis in the Democratic Party with his ...