What Happens When Politics Rewards The Worst Instincts
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of political rhetoric and media framing on violence, highlighted by a security scare at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Gunfire at one of Washington’s most scripted nights jolts everything into the real world. We start with the White House Correspondents Dinner security scare, what we know about the suspect, and the bigger question nobody can dodge: how much does political rhetoric and media framing contribute to the temperature that makes violence feel “justified” to unstable people? From there, we get into the messy part: accountability. We talk about why armchair breakdowns of Secret Service movements don’...
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