July 14, 2024 (EIRNS)—The July 13 assassination attempt against President Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania shocked the nation and the world, bringing the country literally an inch away from total chaos. For the first time in decades, a President or Presidential candidate has suffered an assassination attempt, and at a crucial time in history at that. This is not simply an attack on Donald Trump, but is an attack on the institution of the Presidency of the United States, and on that institution’s ability to respond organically, or non-linearly, in a moment of grave crisis.
