Failed assassination of Trump: quick thoughts a day after.

Once political violence is normalized in one area, as with BLM's "mostly peaceful" riots, it gets normalized across the spectrum, as seen on January 6, in anti-Semitic campus "actions" and on July 13.

Our two main political parties need a time-out. We require a period of national mourning and a rethink of how we do politics. Some of us understand how to disagree, even vehemently, without resorting to zero-sum extinction thinking. But an increasing number of our countrymen are no longer built for today’s level of vitriol, ad hominem, and demonizati…