This means that 26 million people share this opinion, and more than 8.5 million of them have weapons. Also, 7% of American adults (or 18 million people), 9 million of whom are armed, support using violence to reinstate Trump as president.
History repeats itself
Commentators draw attention to past analogies. IN 1912 The incident occurred near the convention site in Milwaukee, where Trump will accept his nomination. The assassination attempt on President Theodore Roosevelt failed. Roosevelt, then running for re-election, pointed to a bloodstained piece of paper with the text of his speech and said, “I don’t know if you fully understand that I have been shot.” Will Trump do the same? Now, it remains to be seen whether Trump’s supporters will celebrate surviving an assassination attempt on the campaign trail.
Attack on Trump. reactions
Assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump Political violence in America has provoked widespread reactions and reflections. Stephen Marche, author of “The Next Civil War,” notes that political violence in America has been building for nearly two decades. In his article for The Globe and Mail, he asserted that America is overburdened with the ills of a sick extreme in favor of political parties, a breakdown of trust in government institutions, environmental degradation, and rising inequality. Marche warns that “the power to control terror in America is diminishing every day” and that the president’s assassination has been accepted by many Americans as a form of “political expression.”
In response to the attack on Trump, the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau And political party leaders expressed their strong condemnation of political violence. “Political violence is unacceptable — ever,” Trudeau insisted.
Public broadcaster Radio-Canada also drew attention for its spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories about the attack.