The news has a way of surprising you. The Republican Convention is starting today. Democrats are still arguing about whether Biden should leave the race. And yet, none of that is the top story: The Trump shooting is.
I’ve cobbled together something about that. I’m mostly skipping over, or farming out to other people, the standard things that have to be said: violence should not be part of American politics, and so on. Instead I’ll focus on something that I think needs to be said but nobody is saying: We almost all have these kinds of violent fantasies, but they need to stay in our heads. Independent of the morality of violence — which would-be assassins always manage to justify to themselves somehow — letting those fantasies out into the world almost never turns out the way you imagine it would. Taking one person out of the historical stream may seem like a great idea, but History has a way of rolling on without that person, and going where it was headed anyway.
That’s mostly written and should be out soon.
From there I go back to my original plans: a piece on the Republican platform. I know, Project 2025 is the juicier target, but Trump designed it to be deniable and is denying it. The platform isn’t deniable, and there’s plenty in there worth pointing out. That should be out around 11 EDT.
The Democrats’ arguments will be in the weekly summary, along with a bunch of other stuff. That should appear before 1.
The Weekly Sift 
Comments
Thank you for saying that. I am sure it is everyone’s minds. What it means is we have to geet out the vote. That is the way to deal with it. America is such a cowboy up cavalier attitude about The Other and if only, but it is really the vote Isn’t it?