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Savior Complexes
Tom Brenner/The New York Times/Redux President Joe Biden boarding Air Force One after a campaign rally, Madison, Wisconsin, July 5, 2024 On July 13, after Thomas Matthew Crooks fired multiple shots at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, …