Subject: Strictly Ballroom
"It’s been much commented on since Saturday night that, in a room full of super informed political journalists, a prevailing first reaction to the shots fired was that the tumult in the corridor was all a hoax. No one knows what to believe anymore. It is Trump, not the press, whose reign of chaos has deracinated national equilibrium and birthed a citizenry of the dazed and confused. Trump’s prepared speech had been destined to be a sneering tirade about fake media malfeasance. The would-be assassin gave the press a night of terror instead of a night of humiliation." —Tina Brown