On Political Violence: After Saturday Night

After the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, a careful look at when political violence has historically been held to be justified — through the Declaration of Independence and Paul Johnson's account of how Hitler dismantled Weimar — and why we're closer to that line than we should be, but not yet across it. I do not condone political violence. I condemn it. This episode is about why that condemnation is harder to make honestly than it used to be.