{"id":349366,"date":"2024-07-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=349366"},"modified":"2024-07-16T02:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T07:32:02","slug":"assassination-bid-on-trump-shows-polarisation-is-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/assassination-bid-on-trump-shows-polarisation-is-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassination bid on Trump shows polarisation is complete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The image of former US President Trump raising fist when blood was streaking across his countenance\u00a0moments after shots were fired at his election rally in Butler, Pennsylvania\u00a0is a reminder of an imminent threat of deep polarisation in democracies across the world. The assassination attempt and a defiant Trump holding his fist up will give a boost to the campaign of a Republican contender but raise serious questions on the burgeoning gun culture and a toxic political milieu. Indeed,\u00a0the attack may push Donald Trump\u2019s prospects given the sudden change in messaging post-attack, and expected sympathy. Yet, the incident should worry the rest of the world\u00a0as it has happened in the self-anointed custodian of the world\u2019s oldest democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi have strongly condemned the incident. One can heave a sigh of relief that Trump is safe and leaders across the spectrum have condemned the shooting. The incident would jeopardize the calculations of Democrats and Joe Biden in the race for the White House in the aftermath of his disastrous debate performance. America\u2019s tryst with gruesome political violence and acrimonious debates is very long and such incidents instead of bringing an end to hate campaigns have been used by the leaders across party lines to incite feelings further. American democracy is replete with scars of many such murderous assaults.  Sadly, four American presidents have been assassinated while in office \u2013 Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy, while many more including Reagan, Ford, Truman, and Roosevelt are among those who survived attempts on their lives.  It must be remembered that political violence has no place in a democracy where there is conflict of ideologies, which is the basis of a healthy democracy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tehelka Cover Story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we at Tehelka join in condemning the assassination bid and a threat to democracies across the world, our cover story in this issue – \u201cIt\u2019s just not cricket\u201d by the Special Investigation Team uncovers a massive fraud in ICC coaching certifications amidst never-ending echoes of the match-fixing scandal years ago. Tout boasts before the spy camera of a Tehelka reporter posing as a client: \u201cYou don\u2019t need to worry about the selection process or the exam. I\u2019ll take care of that as I\u2019ve already obtained certificates this way.\u201d The ICC, which serves as the global governing body for cricket, representing 108 member countries, conducts cricket coaching education courses for Levels one, two and three twice a year. The tout claims that he had leveraged his connections at the ICC headquarters in Dubai to arrange the certificates and all we need to do is send our candidates to Dubai for a week just to complete the Level 1 course \u2014 and he\u2019ll handle the rest. That shows that all is not well with the gentleman\u2019s game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The image of former US President Trump raising fist when blood was streaking across his countenance\u00a0moments after shots were fired at his election rally in Butler, Pennsylvania\u00a0is a reminder of an imminent threat of deep polarisation in democracies across the world. The assassination attempt and a defiant Trump holding his fist up will give a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":349370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[214,2205],"tags":[18346,17758,17757,15520,18345,15620,17781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349371,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349366\/revisions\/349371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/349370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}