Patrick Pfingsten, founder of
and I broke down the aftermath of this second assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump in our latest video chat! In case you missed, you can catch our first one here:
Show notes:
How is this level of bonkers in national politics sustainable? Ryan Wesley Routh, who was even quoted in the New York Times, clearly seems to be off his rocker
What is the purpose of continuing to lean into the debunked pet-eating rumors?
What will it take to get the focus back on Vice President Kamala Harris — the de facto leader in the polls — and what she would do as president?
How did the Secret Service fail on this? Again? How did someone with an AK-47 style rifle and scope even make it within a few hundred yards of a former president and Republican nominee — this two months after a gunman shot that same former president.
American institutions still struggling to adjust to this country’s batshit crazy modern politics
Read Carol Leonnig’s incredible book on the Secret Service. Read it. This keeps happening with protective agency tasked with protecting the most powerful person in the world.
The rhetoric has been bad for years, and it’s out of control now
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