The day after the attempt on Donald Trump’s life – many experts on the Right and Left talked about how if the attempt had been successful – that it may have lead to a Civil War, because division in America are already so bad.
The last time a Presidential assassination attempt would have caused one half of the country to attack the other half, was with Abraham Lincoln. The attempts against Kennedy and Reagan, were seen as lone gunman style attacks and therefore there was no partisan anger based on the shooting. This most recent attempt more closely mirrors the divisive political environment of the Civil War era more closely than any other time.










https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/us/politics/trump-shooting-violence-divisions.html

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