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Analysis: An assassination attempt that seems likely to tear America further apart

By Peter Baker
New York Times·
9 mins to read

ANALYSIS

The attack on former President Donald Trump comes at a time when the United States is already polarised along ideological and cultural lines and is split, it often seems, into two realities.

When President Ronald Reagan was shot by an attention-seeking drifter in 1981, the country united behind its injured leader. The teary-eyed Democratic speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill, went to the hospital room of the Republican president, held his hands, kissed his head and got on his

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