The Trump Assassination Attempt Meets the Internet’s Brain-Rot Era

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After a gunman attacked Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, the first pieces of media to emerge were striking photographs of Trump, with blood trickling down his face, pumping his fist defiantly as Secret Service officers escorted him off the stage. My colleague Benjamin Wallace-Wells described this scene, as captured by Evan Vucci of the Associated Press, as “the indelible image of our era of political...