And you can type this with a straight face, unwilling to acknowledge that we’re devolving to our previous, more primitive roots at a more desperate hour than usual?
I’m not sure how to tell you this, but going back to what we used to do is not a good sign. Just because there’s precedent doesn’t mean it’s fine.
It never changed. People have wanted to murder Biden. And Obama. And Bush. And Clinton. And Bush Sr. And Reagan. And Carter. etc. etc. etc. It's part of being the president, which is why the secret service exists. Just being such a public figure alone is enough to make you a target – Reagan was shot by some delusional guy to impress Jodie Foster.
And I'm sure there's tons more events we never heard about. Or people prevented from doing something just because there was enough security (who only needed to be present to prevent any attack).
Your wishful thinking is wisting away. When tens of millions of people base their real-world behaviors and beliefs from their social media experience, the influence of those feeds seep into our collective reality. Look at the last 10 years for concrete evidence.
Yeah but how many want to murder him. I'm pretty rabidly anti-Trump, but him dying is not going to fix anything, we have tens of millions of people who are horrifically angry and completely detached from reality. What really caught me was just how quickly and agressively a bunch of accounts were pushing a conspiracy theory that this was a false flag put together by the Trump team to boost his ratings as if:
1) Trump would sign onto a plan involving someone shooting him damn near his face
2) As if just barely grazing someone's ear is something you can plan in advance and get right often enough to not accidentally kill the guy it's supposed to benefit
3) As if it's impossible for a young man in America to be utterly disconnected from reality enough to shoot at a politician.
It made it very very clear that 90% of the posts on ANYTHING even remotely interesting are either explicitly bad faith actors trying to push divisive narratives, or worse, stupid sycophants repeating anything they see on the internet.
Someone has probably wanted, planned or tried to kill most American Presidents since at least Lincoln. Most such attempts don't make the news, much less happen on camera.
