This weekend brought yet another disturbing act of political violence. Each time, we hope it’s the last, but hovering over the act is the knowledge that it won’t be the last and the fear that it won’t be the worst.
At least, that’s how many of us feel about the tragic shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night. The trolls and point-scorers feel differently. Because how that opening sentence should really read is, “Yet another disturbing act of political violence, yet another round of recriminations about whose speech was responsible and who should be shut down as a result.”
In this case, the bogeyman is a familiar one: Jimmy Kimmel, who, as both Melania Trump and Donald Trump argued Monday, should be taken off the air (again) for a joke he made last week about the potential future death of Donald Trump.
But I’d argue that eyerolling another MAGA attempt to exploit a tragedy is, while
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