Attempt on Trump Recalls the Contrasts With McKinley, Whose Assassination Brought America Together in a Harrowing Moment

Then again, too, no one would have mounted in Central Park a version of ‘Julius Caesar’ in which the dictator who was knifed in the back was Donald Trump.

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President McKinley in 1900, photograph by Levin Corbin. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

As President Trump recovers from an assassination attempt, Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans await to learn if the motive of the gunman, Matthew Thomas Crooks, aligned with their politics. What a contrast to yesterday’s America, when unity was a civic virtue and not just a shield invoked when tragedy strikes.

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