Two years ago today, Donald Trump turned his head.

That was the difference.

A fraction of a second. A fraction of an inch. One bullet that tore through his ear instead of his skull, and America avoided a catastrophe whose full cost we could not understand at the time.

We understand it now.

We know because Trump lived. He got back up. He won. And in the time since, he has shown the country exactly what almost died with him on that stage in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Not just a candidate. Not just a presidency. A secure border. An economy rebuilt around American workers. A military focused on winning. A government once again willing to say that the United States exists for its own citizens.

All of it came within inches of disappearing.

For years, the Left told America that Trump was not merely wrong, but evil. He was Hitler. A fascist. A dictator. An existential threat who had to be stopped before he destroyed democracy.

They tried investigations, impeachments, censorship, prosecutions, ballot removal, and financial ruin. They spent nearly a decade convincing unstable people that ordinary political rules no longer applied because Trump represented an emergency.

Then a gunman climbed onto a roof in Butler.

Had Trump died, the Biden invasion would have survived him. Catch-and-release would likely still be policy. The border wall would still sit unfinished. Sanctuary cities would........

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