I joined Ireland’s TheJournal.ie for a 28-minute analysis of the significance of attempted assassinations of current and former US Presidents, past and present.

Chatting with Laura Byrne, I give the wider context of the killings of four Presidents — Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James Garfield in 1881, William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy in 1963 — the slaying and serious wounding of Presidents and candidates such as Ronald Reagan, Bobby Kennedy, and George Wallace; and the attempts on the lives of President Gerald Ford and on Donald Trump.

Part of that context is the “politics of violence” of Donald Trump, and how that will proceed in a damaged US political and media culture.