For the second time in two months, Donald Trump found himself in the crosshairs of a potential assassin, this time as he was playing a round of golf at his West Palm Beach golf course in Florida. The fact that a President of the United States can be targeted once should be alarming enough- but the fact that it happened a second time should make all of us upset regardless of whom we support, says award-winning NorthJersey.com columnist Mike Kelly. Kelly appeared on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program to explain why the rhetoric on both sides is now a part of the story.
As a flummoxed Kelly opined with Berman and Riedel, “Is our country getting to the point now where this is normal, where we have normalized this kind of thing? I think we’ve all lived through the various pieces of violence in our country over the past how many decades, and I’m just concerned now that we’ve gotten to the point where it’s become like normal behavior.”
Kelly emphasized that the winner of the 2024 Presidential election has to appeal to both sides if we’re going to ratchet down the tension. “What’s missing in this equation is what we all used to call common ground, compromise, that sort of thing, and we’re not seeing it, and I think whoever wins is going to have to make some sort of effort toward common ground, and if they don’t, I think we’re going to see more and more anger building in this country.”
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