Today’s notice: A lot of talk about talk in politics — threatening, hollow or inconvenient.
Rhetorical Questions
On Sunday morning, JD Vance was outraged that anyone would suggest the Trump campaign’s false and incendiary rhetoric around legal immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, could possibly have set off a week of threats to schools and other municipal buildings in the city. On Monday morning, Donald Trump was outraged that anyone could possibly say Democrats’ incendiary rhetoric wasn’t responsible for what authorities are calling a second assassination attempt on the former president.