This Is Not What The Founders Wanted
Government should not be important enough to motivate people to kill others to gain control. Moreover, people willing to engage in violence to seize the means of governance have no business exercising political power. These are points we should be drumming home after the latest in a series of assassination attempts against President Donald Trump and other administration officials at a time of surging political violence in the United States. Cole Tomas Allen’s apparent attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was almost unremarkable for the banality of his manifesto and because, thankfully, injuries were limited to a Secret Service agent whose vest stopped the round. Allen’s grievances were the low IQ-standard political verbiage seen these days at political protests. He complained that he was “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” clarifying that he himself is “not the pe...