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Josh Chafetz

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It's also the case that, as the parties have become more internally cohesive, the payoff to assassination has declined. For most part, no chance in recent years of a Lincoln-->Johnson shift or a Garfield-->Arthur. But the possibility of a Harris-->Johnson shift ...

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James Debord's avatar James Debord @jamesdebord.bsky.social
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Were any assassinations (attempted or otherwise) besides Garfield based on a political calculation? Not Reagan, Kennedy, McKinley, T. Roosevelt.

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Rob Shearer's avatar Rob Shearer @r.v.cx
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Since we’re saying these things out loud, I’ve spent a lot of time this week very worried about SCOTUS assassinations. Lifetime appointments are an absolutely terrible idea for so many reasons.

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