On Saturday, hours after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump with an AR-15-style assault rifle, President Biden sounded a familiar refrain: The United States, he assured the public, settles its differences peacefully; political violence is un-American and abhorrent. “We cannot allow this to be happening,” he said.
The assassination attempt against Trump is one on a long list of attacks. “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard-of.”
Ronald Reagan echoed the point shortly after a bullet nearly killed him in 1981. He declared that Americans’ uplifting response to the close call had “provided an answer to those few voices that were raised saying that what happened was evidence that ours is a sick society.” And for pundits predicting that this weekend’s assassination attempt will amount to a political win for Mr. Trump: Not all of these assassination attempts generated the kind of sympathy that one might have expected from the public.
After Mr. Truman was attacked, some reporters speculated about whether an outpouring of good will would boost his party’s fortunes in the 1950 midterm elections. “The attempt this week to assassinate Mr. Truman will transform into a triumph the enthusiastic reception on which he could always count,” The Times’s Arthur Krock, a leading columnist, wrote of Mr. Truman’s reception at an upcoming St. Louis rally where he was giving a final campaign speech. “When the audience beholds him,” Mr.
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