I'm breaking my "radio silence" to mention that I wrote this thread on July 4th. It is not a commentary on yesterday's shooting of Donald Trump.
Sometimes it's easy to forget to read time stamps on posts, so I'm just pointing this out to prevent confusion.
It is weirdly ironic that I posted this nine days before an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, though.
(Who knows what the political persuasion of the shooter is, though. Too early to tell. Too few details.)