Assassination attempt reframed the presidential race -- and Trump...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

89% : Trump is a creature of popular culture - a terrific entertainer in the modern manner.
76% : Surrounded by death and stark terror, with blood flowing from a wounded ear, Trump displayed truly admirable courage and command.
71% : That's what the deadly shooting at Butler, and the perfect image that will forever capture the moment, have done for Trump.
60% : Elon Musk formally endorsed Trump on the very day of the shooting.
52% : Trump, we are told, isn't merely wrong or bad.
43% : The closest I can come to it is this: Trump has been reframed.
41% : The cheesy golden escalator and the Mar-a-Lago glitter have been left behind - and Trump, strange to say, is approaching the realm of myth.
41% : To the extent that Trump has merged with Vucci's mythical image of him, Trumpism has been normalized.
39% : Trump doesn't even need heroic status.
34% : The central subject, Trump, will never be the same.
32% : But there are a few of us who haven't loved Trump for the opposite reason: the unbearable lightness of being that attached itself to his actions.
30% : Comparisons to Hitler are so routine as to be farcical: the most recent cover of TNR shows a portrait of Trump sprouting a Hitler mustache and morphing into the German dictator.
26% : Trump will be harder to demonize.
24% : The people who hate Trump do so to an insane degree, and see him as a sort of biblical monster, an Antichrist come to inaugurate the End of Days.
20% : All this is terrible news to the institutional actors - starting with the administration but including journalists, academics, and movie stars - who have dedicated the last eight years to inventing ever more extreme expressions of horror and hatred on the subject of Trump.
20% : In a depressing burst of infantile nihilism, several commentators have called for Trump to be killed.
18% : President Biden pulled his campaign advertisement off the air - we can guess how Trump was portrayed in those ads.
16% : Trump will continue to say things that drive his opponents crazy and make his well-wishers cringe.
14% : Even after President Biden was exposed as a confused and incoherent senior in his debate with Trump, and after the latter's epic reaction at Butler, the opinion polls have moved very slightly.

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