I recorded a quick reaction to the Trump assassination attempt.
I’ll have this transcribed and will add the transcription later. (added)
“Hearing the news that Donald Trump had been shot with an assassination attempt at the rally in Pennsylvania, I had a couple of initial reactions to it.I know a lot of people will be talking about this in the coming days, and we still don’t really know enough about the shooter, what his motivation was. It might’ve been just plain old Trump Derangement Syndrome. It might’ve been that he was completely delusional, like Jared Loughner who shot the Congresswoman in Texas. Or it might be some combination. But that doesn’t really matter for the way I reacted.The way I reacted was at a very core level emotionally. Many people have messaged me that they came to tears when they heard about the shooting before they even knew what the result was. And I felt very much the same way.It brought out from me one of my earliest childhood emotions, which was the assassination of JFK. I was four years old. It was really my first childhood emotion that I remember. And my mother wrote out for me a short note that I sent to the President’s family and to his children saying how sad I was that they lost their father. As you can tell, even right now, there’s something very core that comes out of me when I talk about that. And the White House at that time did respond.That’s something that has stayed with me. And whenever we’ve had major assassinations or assassination attempts, that’s something that no matter how much I try to suppress it, it comes out.But there’s another reaction that I had. One that’s something that we’ve talked about a lot at the website, which is how close we are to our society falling apart. And I’ve often quoted parts of the poem from William Butler Yates about the Second Coming and how “the center cannot hold” and “things fall apart.”And that’s another emotion I had. We literally came within an inch. Now that’s a common phrase. ‘I came within an inch of doing something’. We literally came within an inch of this country coming apart.And I think that notion that we’ve talked about a lot at the website, how the relentless pressure from the left on all of us, the capture of institutions, the aggressiveness, the lack of law enforcement, all those other things have really brought our society to a point where there is a very thin reed between society functioning and it coming apart. And that’s the other thing.I felt that we really were on the precipice and we came within an inch of this country changing forever.There will be a lot of discussion in the coming days. We’ll cover it at the website. But I wanted to give you my first two initial reactions to the assassination attempt. And thank God it was not successful.”
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