#and then there just kind of stopped being high-profile assassination attempts for about 40 years until someone scratched Trump's ear

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that this is a very dangerous situation right now and that it's actually very bad in the long run that so many people have abandoned all trust in the system's ability to represent their interests that they would turn to vigilantism, but I'm going to be honest: I think that this sort of violence has been a long time coming.