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What did Robert De Niro think when he heard the news that a loser on the fringe shot President Trump? Did he think, “Good. I’m glad someone finally did.” Did he pause and contemplate the near-death of a former president? Did he, like so many others on the Left, wish the shooter had better aim?

It didn’t matter to Thomas Matthew Crooks whether the target was Joe Biden or Donald Trump. He probably never watched Taxi Driver, and the only thing he knows about Robert De Niro is the anti-Trump memes that flood the MAGA zone, making fun of the aging actor. Everybody sees those. No, all that mattered to him was that people remembered his name.

But still, you have to wonder, in the moments immediately following the shooting, what De Niro must have thought, considering he once played Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, a guy a lot like Crooks— a lonely invisible man who would be written off as an incel today—the very definition. Not many people go to the trouble of assassination attempts of political figures. Thomas Matthew Crooks now joins that very short list.

What made the Trump assassination attempt so jarring was that we all watched it on live television. We saw something that should have shocked us all out of our partisan stupor. It should have meant the end of our Cold Civil War, fought mostly on Twitter for control of the media narrative.

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