Crossing back live to Richard Thornburg

 In “Prayers, Pews, and a Hail of Bullets,” The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger writes about the shooting in Minneapolis yesterday and, as Sam Stein puts it, “our horrendous, insatiable need to respond to mass shootings by sublimating it as fodder for the ever-present all-out political war.” As Egger writes, “A fuller reading of the killer’s apparent sloganeering revealed…a personality that seemed shaped more by the nihilism of the most degraded parts of the internet than by partisan attachment.”