HUGH HEWITT: Manifestos are meaningless – finding the root of political violence is irrelevant

“He was probably a sick person,” President Trump opined about his killer on Sunday night’s “60 Minutes” in a CBS interview about Saturday night’s attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual meeting. “A man with many problems,” the president said later in the interview.

“I wasn’t worried,” said the president. “I understand life. We live in a crazy world.”

“Look, you have sick people, and you have to reduce the risk,” President Trump concluded. You’re right, of course. But how?

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President Trump also expressed palpable anger 20 minutes into the 40-minute interview, when Norah O’Donnell repeated the slander in the would-be assassin’s manifesto. There are so many good questions that could be asked in the 40 Minutes interview that this was a waste of time that, while predictable, should cause a stir on “60 Minutes.” It is not difficult to talk to the president in an honest way.

The decision to quote a lunatic in front of such a large audience is a colossal failure of editorial decision, and another stunning unforced error by a legacy media that can’t read the national chamber.

That decision echoes the former CNBC Washington Correspondent John Harwood’s epic failed interview in 2016 when he asked then-candidate Donald Trump if his run for the White House was a comic book version of the presidential campaign, a comical fallout that may have forced Harwood to move to another network in 2019.

The decision to quote a lunatic in front of such a large audience is a colossal failure of editorial decision, and another stunning unforced error by a legacy media that can’t read the national chamber.

Many certified journalists seem to lose their jobs when they talk to Trump. It’s amazing how they can resist trying to “beat” him for a moment and use that time to, who knows, do something as crazy as ask questions about the war with Iran?

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Questions about the motives of murderers and would-be murderers and their “manifestos” do not interest me. It only takes a sick mind and enough money to find a weapon to grab a bad reputation after pulling off stunts from a degenerate reality. What they write is of some interest, but not much. The writings of a madman are only indications of the origins of psychosis.

What would be interesting – and doesn’t seem to come out of nowhere … however – is a critical review of all non-violent people. Where did they come from, and what characteristics do they share in the past?

These are not “ordinary” criminals who want money or use violence on impulse or for the sake of criminal enterprise. They are a small part of the mentally ill, most of whom cannot function well in society, but exist on their margins, only being recognized when their conditions leave the victims after they wake up.

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This subsection is perhaps best described as a “statement” of people, although “statements” are not consistent.

From Columbine to this weekend’s third major attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump – and this time a large part of his Cabinet – there have been dozens of sinister plots to kill either a large number of innocent people unknown to the criminal or public figures, many but not all accompanied by “manifestos.” There have been raids where the shooters take their “agenda” to the grave and their “intentions” or self-proclaimed “agenda” are unknown or not yet released to the public.

There are enough killers involved in their heads, in some kind of macabre theater, that the question should have been answered by the FBI or other great students of violence years ago: What do they have in common? What happened to them to take them off the normal highways of human development? Or, perhaps, what was missing in their lives? Gun control activists have their definitions, but they don’t reach this category of murderer or would-be murderer.

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The second set of questions is what to do about the rampant mental illness that is sweeping society and spreading at the speed of the internet. “We live in a different world with the Internet than ever before, but even years ago it was dangerous,” President Trump said on “60 Minutes.”

“The Internet, perhaps more than anything else, has changed some people. It’s made them mentally ill,” the president said, returning to the general issue and not the direct ramblings of an unbalanced person. He also praised the benefits of the new country before concluding: “It’s a different era. A very different time.

Joseph Loconte, author of the excellent book “The War for Middle-Earth: JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, and the Gathering Storm, 1933-1945,” charts how two of the most widely read and influential authors of the last century lived through twelve years of nightmares. The stories of their experiences do not provide answers to our current problems, but they do provide relevant observations.

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Both men were veterans of World War I, and Loconte had documented their experiences in that enormous channel house in a 2017 book, “The Hobbit, the Wardrobe, and the Great War: How JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis Found Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918.” Loconte returned to the story of these two men and their specific experiences in the pre-war and post-war years of World War II last November.

“Every age has its own vision of the world, a mixture of clarity and blindness,” notes Loconte in “The War for Middle-earth.” “Yet the moral blindness of the twentieth century represented something new, something entirely new: ideas that threatened to destroy the foundations of civilized life.”

“Tolkien and Lewis believed that only an idea based on ancient facts could be resisted,” Loconte continued before borrowing from Lewis. “The only way to help keep the sea air clean for centuries is in our mind, and this can only be done by reading old books.”

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Loconte’s research into these men and their friends and their cohorts, and the remarkable awareness of the outbreak of world-shattering violence, includes a fascinating glimpse of life in Oxford and Cambridge during the war years, but focuses on how two brilliant men anticipated and responded to the horror of the twisted and frothy declarations of the bloodthirsty killers of the ages. millions.

In our recent history in America, there are so many threads of violence – much of it based on political ideology that has no connection to reality – that you can find evidence for any belief you want to express. There is no theory that tells all or most of them. But has anyone done pattern recognition based on their life history?

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What are they doing, for example, at Quantico, where the FBI studies serial killers and other categories of crime at the National Center for Violent Crime Analysis? One “research” on “right-wing extremism” from the Center has been removed from the Justice Department’s website for unknown reasons, but it is still available online and does not address the question of patterns in development.

Last year, the Center for Strategic and International Studies published a study by Daniel Byman and Riley McCabe on left-wing extremism that, while interesting, does not focus on people who have attempted or committed violence.

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The catchy, all-purpose response of busybodies is to do just what the president did: blame radicalization on the Internet. That is true but it tells us absolutely nothing about the commonalities, if any, among the would-be Oswalds. Fear of a “Minority Report” culture that prejudges idiosyncrasies as threats may inhibit research.

Anyway, what are the dots that have not been connected about the factors in the upbringing of the characters that put the inequality in the world of killers “statement”? If there is an in-depth tutorial on that topic, link to it in the comments. But if it is not there, maybe the Bureau or somewhere else in the school, other researchers will notice the gap.

Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor and host of “The Hugh Hewitt Show“Hear weekday afternoons from 3 PM to 6 PM ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on the Salem News Channel. Hugh calls Americans home on the East Coast and lunch on the West Coast to more than 400 embassies across the country, and on every broadcast platform where SNC can be seen. He is a regular guest on Fox News Channel on the Brett news program at 6 pm. Ohio and graduation from Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. of television, MSN has also written for MSN television writers and moderated Republican debate scores, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in 2015-16 Hewitt focuses his radio show and column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians on and tens of thousands of Trump Republicans and Donald Bush’s 40 years in broadcasting.

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