The lesson of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting is not about left or right—but about what happens when we teach Americans to see each other as threats

The scene was jarring precisely because of where it unfolded.

Black tie. Cameras. Journalists and elected officials gathered for what is supposed to be one of Washington’s most ritualized, almost self-congratulatory evenings—the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. And then, suddenly, chaos. A gunman, security scrambling, the President evacuated, attendees ducking for cover.

This was not supposed to happen there.

But perhaps that assumption is the problem.

We have spent years telling ourselves that political violence in America belongs to the “other side”—that it is the product of one ideology, one movement, one kind of extremism. The facts no longer support that comfort.

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