MORNING GLORY: Trump saw the truth legacy media missed — sick minds are fueling violence

"He was astir apt a beauteous sick guy," President Trump correctly concluded astir his would-be assassin successful a Sunday nighttime "60 Minutes" interrogation connected CBS astir the Saturday nighttime onslaught connected the White House Correspondents’ Association yearly gathering. "A antheral with a batch of problems," the president added aboriginal successful the interview.

"I wasn’t worried," the president said. "I recognize life. We unrecorded successful a brainsick world."

"Look, you person sick people, and you person to mitigate the risk," President Trump concluded. He’s right, of course. But how?

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President Trump besides flashed immoderate justifiable choler astatine the 20-minute people successful a 40-minute interview, erstwhile Norah O’Donnell repeated the slanders successful the would-be assassin’s manifesto. There are truthful galore fantabulous questions that could beryllium asked successful a 40-minute interrogation that this was an maltreatment of clip that, portion predictable, should trigger a shake-up astatine "60 Minutes." It is not hard to interrogation the president successful a liable fashion. 

The determination to punctuation a brainsick person’s libel successful beforehand of that tremendous assemblage is simply a monolithic nonaccomplishment of editorial judgment, and different unthinkable unforced mistake by bequest media that conscionable cannot work the nationalist room. 

That determination ranks with erstwhile CNBC Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood’s epic neglect successful a 2016 statement erstwhile helium asked then-candidate Donald Trump whether his tally for the White House was a "comic publication mentation of a statesmanlike campaign," a dropping of the disguise that whitethorn person yet forced Harwood to determination to different web successful 2019.

The determination to punctuation a brainsick person’s libel successful beforehand of that tremendous assemblage is simply a monolithic nonaccomplishment of editorial judgment, and different unthinkable unforced mistake by bequest media that conscionable cannot work the nationalist room. 

Many credentialed journalists look to suffer their professionalism erstwhile talking to Trump. It’s singular however they can’t defy trying to "score" a infinitesimal connected him and usage that clip to, who knows, bash thing brainsick similar inquire questions astir the conflict with Iran?

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The questions astir the motives of assassins and would-be assassins and their "manifestos" bash not involvement me. It takes lone a diseased caput and capable wealth to get a limb to grasp astatine infamy aft scratching retired ramblings from a disfigured reality. What they constitute is of immoderate interest, but not much. Lunatic scribbles are conscionable clues to the root of the psychosis.

President Donald Trump posted a photograph connected societal media showing instrumentality enforcement detaining Cole Thomas Allen pursuing a shooting incidental astatine the White House Correspondents' Dinner successful Washington, D.C., connected April 25, 2026. (US President Trump via Truth Social/Anadolu/Getty Images)

What would beryllium absorbing — and does not look to person appeared anyplace … yet — is simply a superior reappraisal of each the unbalanced-past-the-point-of-violence people. Where are they coming from, and what characteristics successful their past bash they share?

These are not "ordinary" criminals seeking wealth oregon utilizing unit from impulse oregon due to the fact that of a transgression enterprise. They are a tiny subcategory of the mentally ill, the immense bulk of whom cannot relation good successful society, but beryllium connected its margins, noticed lone erstwhile their conditions permission victims successful their wake.

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This subcategory is possibly champion classified arsenic "statement" people, though the "statements" are incoherent.

From Columbine to this weekend’s 3rd large effort to termination President Donald Trump — and this clip overmuch of his Cabinet — determination person been dozens of nightmarish plots to termination either ample numbers of innocents who are strangers to the transgression oregon nationalist figures, galore but not each of them accompanied by "manifestos." There person besides been ambuscades wherever the shooters took their "agendas" to the sedate and whose "motives" oregon self-proclaimed "agendas" are either unknowable oregon person not been released to the public.

There are capable murderers progressive successful their ain heads, successful immoderate benignant of macabre theater, that the question should person been answered by the FBI oregon immoderate different superior students of unit years ago: What bash they person successful common? What happened to them to sound them disconnected the mean highways of quality development? Or, perhaps, what was missing from their lives? Gun power activists person their explanations, but they bash not scope this class of slayer oregon would-be killer.

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The 2nd acceptable of questions is what to bash astir the wide intelligence unwellness that permeates nine and spreads astatine the velocity of the internet. "We are surviving successful a antithetic satellite with the net than we had years ago, but adjacent years agone it was beauteous dangerous," President Trump told "60 Minutes."

"The internet, possibly much than thing else, has radicalized immoderate people. It’s made them mentally sick," the president said, returning to the wide contented and not the circumstantial ramblings of an unbalanced individual. He besides praised the benefits of the caller satellite earlier concluding: "It’s a antithetic age. It’s a precise antithetic time."

Joseph Loconte, writer of the fantabulous "The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and the Gathering Storm, 1933-1945," charts however 2 of the astir wide work and influential writers of the past period lived done a twelve nightmare years. The stories of their experiences bash not supply answers to our existent dilemma, but they bash supply immoderate applicable observations.

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Both men were veterans of World War I, and Loconte had chronicled their experiences successful that immense charnel location successful a 2017 book, "A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism successful the Cataclysm of 1914-1918." Loconte returned to the taxable of the 2 men and their circumstantial experiences successful the prewar and warfare years of World War II successful November of past year.

"Every property has its ain outlook connected the world, a substance of clarity and blindness," Loconte observes successful "The War for Middle-earth." "Yet the motivation blindness of the twentieth period represented thing new, thing wholly novel: ideologies that threatened to destruct the foundations of civilized life."

"Tolkien and Lewis believed that lone an outlook rooted successful the past truths could defy it," Loconte continued earlier borrowing from Lewis. "The lone palliative is to support the cleanable oversea breeze of the centuries done our minds, and this tin beryllium done lone by speechmaking aged books."

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Loconte’s survey of these men and their friends and their collective, unthinkable consciousness of the attack of an eruption of world-shattering unit includes fascinating glimpses of beingness astatine Oxford and Cambridge successful the warfare years, but its absorption is connected however 2 men of genius anticipated and past responded to the fearfulness of the twisted and frothing declarations and practices of the killers who drenched those twelve years successful the humor of millions.

In our caller past successful America, determination are truthful galore strands of unit — overmuch of it rooted successful views of authorities untethered to world — that it is imaginable to find grounds for immoderate mentation you would similar to claim. No mentation accounts for them each oregon adjacent astir of them. But has anyone done signifier designation based connected their biographies?

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What are they doing, for example, astatine Quantico, wherever the FBI studies serial killers and different categories of transgression astatine the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime? One "study" of "right-wing extremism" from the Center was removed from the Department of Justice’s website for chartless reasons, but it is inactive disposable online and does not scope the question of patterns successful development.

Last year, the Center for Strategic and International Studies published a survey of left-wing extremism by Daniel Byman and Riley McCabe that, portion interesting, does not bash the heavy dive into the individuals who attempted oregon carried retired the violence.

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The tempting, all-purpose reply for engaged radical is simply to bash what the president did: blasted radicalization via the internet. That is existent but tells america thing astatine each astir the commonalities, if any, among the would-be Oswalds. The fearfulness of a "Minority Report" civilization that prejudges idiosyncrasies arsenic threats whitethorn inhibit the research.

Still, what dots person ne'er been connected astir factors successful the upbringing of the actors that extremity the unbalanced into the onshore of the "statement" killers? If there’s a superior survey of that topic, nexus to it successful the comments. But if determination isn’t, possibly the Bureau oregon determination successful the academy, immoderate researchers volition instrumentality enactment of the gap.

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