In the aftermath of the foiled assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 25, the third in under two years, I have a lot of questions. I suspect most Americans do.

How many more times will we wake up to headlines about another attempt on a Republican president's life? How many more times will the Secret Service have to move in split seconds to stop a gunman?

Americans can feel gratitude for the Secret Service agents who neutralized the threat, and still wonder how a teacher-turned-would-be-assassin got that close to the president in the first place.

The attack raises a darker question: What kind of political climate produces this level of hatred? What makes someone attempt an assassination in a room full of journalists, a setting where the act would be witnessed, filmed from every angle, and pushed across every feed within the hour?

As a conservative who voted for Trump, I have watched two earlier attempts on his life and........

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