Dan Bongino\u2019s alarm lands differently because it comes from someone trained to imagine the worst,<\/p>\n
then spend his life preventing it. He sees a former president sitting at the crossroads of foreign vengeance,<\/p>\n
domestic radicalization, and an increasingly reckless political culture that treats elimination as a punchline.<\/p>\n
When threats converge like this, professionals stop talking about probabilities and<\/p>\n
start talking about inevitabilities\u2014unless something changes.<\/p>\n
His most disturbing fear is not only that Trump is targeted,<\/p>\n
but that the shield around him might be subtly thinned by politics,<\/p>\n
optics, or quiet resentment. That possibility should terrify even Trump\u2019s fiercest critics.<\/p>\n
If protection becomes partisan, every future leader inherits that fragility.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t about liking or hating one man.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s about whether a country still believes its institutions must<\/p>\n
stand above the blood sport it has turned its politics into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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