And the Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris.

Okay, well, not much happening in the world.

I'm recording late in the day on Monday,

so about 48 hours after the attempted

assassination of former President Trump. I'm sure I'll have more to say about this when I speak to Ann Applebaum on the

podcast later in the week. Over at Substack I've written a flurry of short posts in the last two weeks or so all on politics, all of

them arguing that the Biden campaign is over, whether or not Biden and his team realize it.

And I think that's even more true today.

I don't see how Biden runs against Trump in the aftermath of this near assassination, which as horrible

as it is and was, and I'll talk about that, The net result for Trump is about as good as you could imagine.

Had this been stage managed by Satan, it could not have been better for Trump.

So this is just to say that I think the Biden campaign is even more doomed than it was last week.

But perhaps any Democratic campaign is doomed at this point.

That remains to be seen.

Obviously, Biden hasn't dropped out yet, so all of this is academic for the moment.

But after Saturday, I think, you have to expect, we will have a second term of President Trump.

I don't know what prediction markets are saying at this point, but it has been an extraordinary 48 hours.

I think I'll just read the short post I wrote yesterday about the attempt on Trump's life.

First, one thing I didn't say in the post is,

had the shooter succeeded,

whatever you think about Trump and the risks he poses to our democracy, that outcome would have

been catastrophic. Nothing good would have come from a successful act of political violence, which is a very long and

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