It's Monday, April 27th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions. It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska.

In his impromptu Black Tie Press conference after a near assassination attempt, President Trump was asked,

do we just have to live with this state of violence? And his answer was, yes, yes, we do. On many of the Sunday

shows this weekend, panelists were asked a version of the same question. They offered the

answer you're supposed to give. We shouldn't have to. It is true. Political violence does seem to

have become a part of doing business, but it should not be normal.

It should not be normalized.

And that is something we should not lose sight of.

And ultimately, it is incumbent upon public leaders to set the right tone.

I thought the president did that in his press conference last night.

I think it's important for others to follow suit.

But ultimately, we should not say that,

hey, we're used to this. It's America. It's happened before. Somebody has to draw the line.

And we've seen this too many times now, just many, too many times. That was Lonnie Chen on Meet the

press. The panelists are wrong, and Trump is right. It might be better and more comforting had Trump not chosen this

as the one time to tell us the truth, but there you have it. No one is out there who can draw a line.

There is no entity that can do that. There are forces of passions, guns, media, hatreds, enmities, too powerful for

someone in our fractured society to draw the line. There are too many popular voices, constantly

stoking the rage and excusing the antisocial, allowing for the criminal and the violent.

Steve Bannon talks of the FBI director's on a pike, Tucker Carlson's Civil War. Tim Poole says civil war and we have to

escalate after Trump's indictments. Hassan Piker says Hamas was right. America deserved 9-11.

Luigi Mangione committed understandable murder given his victim's, quote, social murder.

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