SC put it together that for at least two minutes people were pointing at him. 30 seconds after the first person saw him, Trump should have been pulled off that stage.
The nervousness about "What happens to me if I make the wrong call?" is paralysing, and "Better wait and see" is the path of least resistance out of the paralysis.
It takes rather harsh training to teach someone awareness that we all function like that, and to make them able to curb that instinct and instead do something.
Even the Ancients knew this: "The gods hate he who hesitates" is a saying well over 2 000 years old.
Also consider the ever-present risk of someone crying "Sniper!" just to disrupt the rally. We've had such incidences here during campaign seasons, where lefties (and that's left on /our/ scale) have shown up with water gun-replicas, or have simply shouted about bombs or guns, or have phone-in bomb threats.
And police must take each one seriously - but that eats up resources and disrupts the rally, and then people have to be evacuated, and so on.
For the one targetted by the left, it's a no-win situation, which is the point.
I agree about paralyzing anxiety and the low effort limbo of hesitation. Makes the immediate clear reaction of President Trump, emerging from that fog, radiating strength and courage under fire even more impressive and remarkable.
SC put it together that for at least two minutes people were pointing at him. 30 seconds after the first person saw him, Trump should have been pulled off that stage.
This is exactly what I don't understand
Malice very much describes the attitude of the media and deep state, about Trump and MAGA.
Better safe than sorry never more applicable
The nervousness about "What happens to me if I make the wrong call?" is paralysing, and "Better wait and see" is the path of least resistance out of the paralysis.
It takes rather harsh training to teach someone awareness that we all function like that, and to make them able to curb that instinct and instead do something.
Even the Ancients knew this: "The gods hate he who hesitates" is a saying well over 2 000 years old.
Also consider the ever-present risk of someone crying "Sniper!" just to disrupt the rally. We've had such incidences here during campaign seasons, where lefties (and that's left on /our/ scale) have shown up with water gun-replicas, or have simply shouted about bombs or guns, or have phone-in bomb threats.
And police must take each one seriously - but that eats up resources and disrupts the rally, and then people have to be evacuated, and so on.
For the one targetted by the left, it's a no-win situation, which is the point.
I agree about paralyzing anxiety and the low effort limbo of hesitation. Makes the immediate clear reaction of President Trump, emerging from that fog, radiating strength and courage under fire even more impressive and remarkable.