Lucinda Creighton

Well, I think we should always be alarmed when an elected leader, whether we like or loathe him, is the target of an assassination attempt.

It's it's concerning.

It should be concerning.

And the fact that this is not the first attempt on on Donald Trump since his political career launched.

And it's it's symptomatic of the fact that US politics is just so broken and so, so polarised.

And to me, that's deeply concerning.

It's not news, but it's deeply concerning.

And and I agree with you.

I don't I don't think at this point in time you can you should or ought to victim blame or.

somehow justify it I mean that's absolutely absolutely wrong and you weren't doing that for us I know no no I'm not suggesting that but I'm just saying you know because there's plenty of it already online you know and there will be and there's lots of people who will salivate at the prospect of the assassination of the President of the United States and I think

You know, the line that Michelle Obama used at one point, when they go low, we go high.

That's a nice aspiration, but it doesn't happen on either side of the political divide.

And I think that it's important, you know, as commentators, as people who are interested in politics, that we continue to advocate for that approach because the polarisation of US politics, it's not unique.

We see it in Europe.

We see it to a limited extent in Ireland, fortunately so far.

But certainly in other parts of Europe, you know, we have really, really bitterly divided politics.

And, you know, it's not good for democracy.

It's not good for outcomes.

It's not good for citizens.

And it's to be condemned wherever it comes from.