Trump’s Day of the Jackal

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

When I hear (as per President Biden’s comments on the Butler shooting) “There’s no place in America for this kind of violence – it’s sick. It’s sick,” I am reminded that the narrative of American history is actually one long paean to political violence—from Bunker Hill to all those weapons being sent off to kill Gazans.

Now about half of the Republican party is strutting around with an AR-15 lapel pin, which suggests that rooftop gunman Thomas Matthew...