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četrtek, 30. april 2026

🔎 Where Did the Shooter's Ideas Come From?

Ariel David

The man who tried to assassinate the president last week left a manifesto. Read it, then read the New York Times from the same week. The overlap is not subtle. In this deep dive, I walk through three things the paper published just a week earlier — an interview, an op-ed, and a profile — and what each one normalized.

Specifically, I walk through:

The New York Times interview that rationalized murder as a form of justice
The NYT op-ed that identified a demographic enemy and called for policies to dispossess them
The NYT profile that held up a deeply troubling candidate as the future of the Democratic Party
How these pieces work together to erode the moral fabric that holds a society in one piece
And the three specific accusations in the alleged shooter’s manifesto that any reader of that paper would recognize

Most of the journalists shaping this narrative sit well to the left of the average American. They know that. What they also know is that nothing moves the needle like a well-reported story that takes a radical premise for granted. By the end of this piece, you'll be able to see the connections — who the paper covers and how, which ideas get warmly considered and which get ignored, what the whole project adds up to — and what it means for the rest of us.