God's Own Crooks

What degree of incompetence is necessary to allow a rifleman within a frew hundred feet of a US presidential candidate, and then allow that rifleman to kill one person, wound two more, and come within an earlobe's breadth of bullet-creasing the world's most powerful head-tribble? No less a theologian than the very same head-tribble's dangling orange squeaker has preached that such epoch-making ineptitude can be nothing other than divine; and in a rare convergence between expert opinion and the democratic will "a lot of people" have backed him up, as well as his own animal-killing offspring. The hypothesis of a bungling or malignant Deity has of course been advanced more than once before now; but the Trumpster's implied endorsement is certainly an unexpected blessing.