In just the past two years, there have been three serious attempts on the life of Donald Trump. In July 2024, a would-be assassin fired multiple shots at Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, wounding the former and future president and killing a member of the audience. In September 2024, secret service agents identified, engaged with, and later apprehended another hopeful assassin at Trump International Golf Club in Florida. And just days ago, gunshots erupted outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., as yet another deranged individual looked to murder the president of the United States.

Folks, none of this is normal.

Of course, political violence — while abhorrent and immeasurably regrettable — is about as historically normal as it gets, including political violence targeting political leaders. After all, four American presidents have been assassinated while in office (Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy), and Ronald Reagan survived an assassination attempt in 1981.

In fact, politically motivated murder can be found throughout all human history wherever organized politics existed, stretching further back than ancient Rome, which was absolutely riddled with assassinations — most notable among them being the murder of Julius Caesar.

No, it’s not that violence itself is abnormal. It’s the nature of our society’s response that worries me most.

We’re supposed to be civilized, enlightened and oh-so-intelligent. The days of public executions before jeering and eager crowds are supposed to be long gone. And yet, in 2026, we are simultaneously numb to attempts on the life of the leader of the free world and surrounded by people who think that such attempts are somewhere between hilarious and completely justified.

Take Jimmy Kimmel — the blubbering political hack who masquerades as a late-night “comedian” — who “joked” days prior to the latest assassination attempt in Washington, D.C., that Melania Trump had “a glow like an expectant widow.”

Because there apparently is nothing funnier than mocking the spouse of possible murder victims…

Then there are the absurd attempts to explain away, to justify and to blame Trump for his own attempted murder, let alone the smooth-brained reflex to declare the attack a hoax and/or the doing of Israel.

And all of this as we are still in the immediate aftermath of the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk last September.

And all of this as Democrats continue to declare that Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler… and that they are relieved that he is safe.

This isn’t a game. This isn’t theater. This isn’t a fantasy. This is cold, hard, brutal reality, and Donald Trump — whether you love him, hate him or hold emotions somewhere in between — is still a human being with the individual value that we all possess by nature of the fact that we are all creations of God.

Unless we want to return to a version of the Dark Ages with iPhones instead of smallpox, perhaps we should take a good look in the mirror and decide whether this is what we want our civilization to be.

Because what I’m seeing is just awful.

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