The Long Simmer of Political Violence in America

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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America is not new to political violence, but the near-assassination of Donald Trump is an attack without comparison in 21st-century politics. How do process it? What happens next? And how true are the claims, as President Joe Biden put it in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, that “this is not who we are?” For this bonus episode of Radio Atlantic, guest host Adam Harris speaks with staff writer Anne Applebaum and executive editor Adrienne LaFrance. Both have written and reported extensively about political violence in America and abroad. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, we see Donald Trump there at a rally in Pennsylvania. You can see his face.
0:09.0	There's blood, blood coming from his ear.
0:12.8	Not exactly sure what has happened,
0:14.6	but those are secret service agents
0:16.5	trying to pull Donald Trump off the stage.
0:19.2	The FBI continues to search for a motive in the shooting.
0:22.3	All this comes as the Republican National Convention
0:24.6	begins today in Milwaukee.
0:28.2	A former president was shot, an American citizen killed while simply exercised his freedom to support the candidate of his choosing.
0:37.0	We cannot, we must not, go down this road in America.
0:41.0	This Saturday, a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania,
0:45.0	injuring candidate and former President Donald Trump,
0:48.0	killing one person, and critically injuring two others.
0:51.0	We're still learning details about the gunman himself and how people
0:54.5	will react to this horrible event. But what we do know is that it was a tragic and
0:59.2	terrifying inflection point in an already tense presidential campaign.
1:03.7	I'm Adam Harris, a regular host, Hana Rosen, is working on a special project.
1:08.1	With me to talk about this distressing moment in American politics are two Atlantic voices.
1:12.8	One is Staff Writer and Historian and Applebaum.
1:15.9	Hello, Anne.
1:17.0	Greetings.
1:17.8	And the other is Atlantic Executive Editor Adrian La France.
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