The Guardian
A Washington DC event rapidly descending in fear and panic and fear after gunshots is, sadly, a piece with the chaotic tragedy of our times For as long as I can remember, the White House correspondents’ dinner was where the Washington press corps and Washington officials basked in each other’s celebrity. Saturday night’s dinner ended abruptly with gunshots , Secret Service officers screaming at attendees to “ get down ”, Donald Trump and other officials being rapidly ushered out of the ballroom, plates crashing and chairs falling, and general pandemonium. Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com . His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now in the US and in the UK Continue reading...
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