Is political violence America's new normal?
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Is political violence America's new normal?

White House correspondents' dinner shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president. The White House says Saturday’s attack is the third 'assassination attempt' on Donald Trump in the last two years. But what do we know about Allen? And what does this all tell us about the rise of political violence in America?


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  • Nick Bryant, journalist and author of Forever War America's Unending Conflict With Itself and the Substack History Never Ended.

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