The Collective Shoulder Shrug Following the Assassination Attempts

One of the strangest things about the assassination attempts against Donald Trump is that so few people outside the MAGA base seemed to care.

Between 1963 and 1981 political assassinations, a distinct subset of the political violence that has defined the United States of America since before it was a country and that continues today most notably in the carceral state, were relatively common.

John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X were assassinated. There were…