The mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton unleashed their own secondary agony of interpretation provided by our Jacobin commentary class.  At the heart of this pathological narrative are cynical manipulative notions of white supremacy, gun control, and a larger agenda of galvanizing rejections of President Trump.  We can find our way past these false interpretations and back toward a world where we are not killing one another.  A key commentator on this matter is former El Paso congressman and now Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke.  O’Rourke spares little wrath in describing the reactionary and acidic response he seeks for the public with regard to President Trump: "This is the most racist President we've had since perhaps Andrew Johnson, in another age and another century, and he is responsible for the hatred and the violence that we're seeing right now.”  He went further to attack a journalist who asked if Trump...(Read Full Article)