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** The Secret Service Must Be Revamped ([link removed])
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by Alan M. Dershowitz • July 21, 2024 at 5:00 am
* It is not as if this attack could not have been anticipated and planned for.... One would think that the Secret Service would have learned from their failure [during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy] in Dallas. They did not.
* The Secret Service should be devoted exclusively to preventing and responding to attacks on its protectees. It must get out of the unrelated business of investigating currency counterfeiting and other crimes.
* This assassination attempt may well be an outgrowth of the increasing acceptance of violence by extremists on all parts of the political spectrum.... it is certainly possible that [would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks] may have been influenced by the current rhetoric justifying violence as an appropriate response to perceived injustice.
* Our universities are turning out students who engage in violence and are only rarely punished for it. Some faculty members are teaching that noble ends justify ignoble means. The result has been physical attacks on fellow students based on political, ideological and religious disagreements. It is only a short step from physically attacking those with whose policies you disagree, to shooting at political candidates who support such policies.
* [P]olitical, educational, religious and other leaders must denounce violence advocated and practiced by those on their side of the political divide. It is easy to denounce violence by one's opponents. It is far more difficult, but more important, to denounce violence by one's allies.
* We are not doing enough.

Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle says she will not resign, despite the failure of her agents to secure the rooftop from where the shots were fired at former President Donald Trump, and despite her refusal to come clean about the causes of the failure. Pictured: Trump is taken off a rally stage by Secret Service agents after he was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (Photo by Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images)

Now that the Republican convention ended without incidents, we must get back to considering the implications of the near-assassination of former President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump two days before the convention began. Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle says she will not resign, despite the failure of her agents to secure the rooftop from where the shots were fired at Trump, and despite her refusal to come clean about the causes of the failure.

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** Trump and the Return of the Republicans ([link removed])
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by Amir Taheri • July 21, 2024 at 4:00 am
* Eight years ago, millions of Americans voted for Trump because he didn't look or sound like regular politicians. Many called that a protest vote, which it certainly was to some extent.
* This time, however, Trump is able to attract a vote of adhesion to an agenda which, although chaotic, at least hints at some of the reforms the US political system needs. These include a rebalancing of the powers of the federal government and the states and the authority of the president as head of the executive power in the context of a debate that started at the birth of the new nation.

Pictured: Former US President Donald Trump is joined by his wife Melania Trump after accepting his party's nomination on the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 18, 2024. (Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Last week, Republicans were back under the Republican Party's convention limelight in Milwaukee. This time they looked as determined to send Donald J. Trump to the White House in November as they were in 2016.

Eight years ago, Trump looked like a bolt out of the blue that, though threatening the serenity of American political sky, would prove a passing nuisance.

Then Trump didn't fit the mold shaped over almost two centuries of American nationhood. He was the first businessman to enter the inner circle of aspirants to the presidency.

Unlike the previous 44 presidents, he had no record of public service, civilian or military, and had never held any public office. Nor was he a graduate of the Ivy League elite universities, nor a winner of many chic scholarships.

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