Like many Americans, I am still reeling from the events of Saturday, when Donald Trump took the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania for what was supposed to be a campaign rally, but instead was hurriedly ushered out minutes later by the Secret Service after an attempted assassin’s bullet pierced his right ear.
The incident was shocking in many ways, of course, but also entirely predictable in others.
As people of all political stripes would agree, the imagery was some of the most iconic America will ever see. The bullet that hit Trump traveling through the air. A bloodied Trump raising his fist defiantly to the crowd, with no words uttered beyond “fight, fight,” as the meaning of that look on his face was crystal clear:
“I’m still here. I’m alive, and I’m not going any damn where,” it said.
Such an unbelievably powerful moment, and one I know many of us will never forget.
