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Prevent a
‘misinformation spiral’
ehind me, the news on TV is showing a loop of the moment some
misguided young man apparently took a shot at Donald Trump. It’s
the day after the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, and this is the
second version of my editorial on the subject.
I’m rewriting it because, like many people, I assumed the attack
was politically motivated. However, the more we learn about 20-year-old Thomas
Matthew Crooks, the alleged shooter killed at the scene, the more I’ve come to
believe the attack was not politically motivated, and that changes the nature of the
discussion we should have.
Let me be clear, and I know some of you will be shocked and disappointed to hear
this, but I do not support Donald Trump. Indeed, I am vehemently opposed to giving
him a second term in ofÏce and consider him dangerously unqualified to hold the
ofÏce of president.
However, let me be equally clear that I do not wish to see him dead. I want him to
run in November and, hopefully, be voted down by a majority of Americans, because
that is how it is supposed to work.
What motivated Crooks, while it remains under investigation, appears to resemble
more the story behind most mass shooters in modern America. He was a Pennsylvania
native and a registered Republican who once donated to a Democratic PAC.
This year’s presidential election would have been the first one in which he would
have been old enough to vote. He was quiet. He was bullied in high school. He had his
father’s AR-15 and some primitive explosives in his car.
Political assassins tend to leave manifestoes or some other expression of the
political ideology that motivated their actions. Mass shooters are more motivated
by a desire to create a story of disaster with their actions merely to maximize the
attention they receive.
I believe the Trump rally was simply a target of opportunity for Crooks. It was a
major event, with a lot of media attention, happening within an hour’s drive of where
he lived at the moment when his internal pressures hit critical mass.
However, within minutes of the incident, some rally attendees began shouting
accusations at members of the media, saying the shooting was their fault. The
conspiracy mill began churning, including some proposing that Trump staged the
attempt to draw ratings (ridiculous!) to, unsurprisingly, accusations on social media
by right wing politicians such as Marjorie Taylor Greene blaming President Biden for
the attempt.
To me, then, today’s challenge is to prevent a misinformation spiral that leads to
further violence that actually will be politically motivate. That’s up to all of us and it
means we all need to think and verify the information we spread.
I’m sure I can count on you.
Edward J. Brock, Senior Editor
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