An extraordinary moment for America’s media elite is all too ordinary in America

What happened at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night might have seemed extraordinary because President Trump and so many people in the presidential line of succession were in the ballroom when shots were fired outside.

But we need to say out loud that it was actually all too ordinary. In America, this is all too common: a shots-fired moment, a chaotic lockdown, a spasm of violence interrupting a peaceful gathering.

Thousands of media and political elites have now gone through what countless millions of other Americans have experienced in their schools, offices, malls and churches.

And on most of those occasions, there were

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