Former President Trump comes within an inch of losing his life at an election rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooter, a bullied 20-year-old incel, lies dead on the roof of a barn with an AR-15-style rifle at his side. A firefighter is killed while diving heroically to protect his family. And my own cousin from New Jersey tells me it was all a staged incident using fake blood, as in the movies, designed to restore Donald Trump to power. What planet is she on? I try reasoning with her but she is off in a fantasy world of her own, while insisting she is “not a conspiracy theorist”.
This is the absolute state of affairs in America. Democrats are behaving as if they are crazy QAnon cultists. Republicans have turned into maiden aunts, shrieking it is all Joe Biden’s fault for using violent rhetoric such as, “It’s time to put a bullseye on Trump.” Good grief. You would think nobody had ever shouted “Hang Mike Pence” while waving their MAGA flags and kicking down the doors of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Meanwhile, there are 400 million firearms in circulation in America with almost no checks on their use.
