Donald Trump is wounded in the ear in an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania Image: Rebecca Droke / AFP
US presidential candidate Donald Trump survived an attack on Saturday, July 13. Immediately, the analyses spoke of “political violence”. From Bush to Obama, including the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets, everyone condemned the crime using the expression “political violence”. According to the voices of reason, it is unacceptable for this type of violence to occur in the interior of the country that is, for the rest of the world, the great example of democracy. “There is no room for this type of violence in America”, the institutions there now say.
We are faced with yet another case of consensus manufacturing, an expression popularized by linguist and activist Noam Chomsky.
Political violence should not be confused with violence against politicians. They are quite different things, and I would argue that the former is infinitely worse, although both are condemnable.
