re: Assassination Attempt on Trump at Pennsylvania Rally; EDIT: He’s Alive; Grazed Ear

IMO the most likely reality is this:

An increasingly infected bureaucracy and administrative state that has allowed corrupting ideology (DEI, etc.) to infect the host and reduce effectiveness in order to advance social ideological causes has reduced the strength of the US military, the entire US law enforcement apparatus, most major corporations, etc. It's not entirely BLM or DEI, as some of this was ongoing before the recent flare ups - but the theme is the same. Dedication to the ultimate objective is being curtailed to allow for other, unrelated social/political objectives. A lot of times the basis is neutral - we want girls to see women on the details so they know they can be a USSS SA too!

But at the most basic level, what objective reason is there to have a weaker, less physically capable female protect a US leader? There is none. You can't tell me there aren't more physically capable men available who want the job. That's not a slight, I have no doubt that many/most of the women on protection details for USSS work hard and are willing to do everything they can for the job - but they're still not the best tools for the job. So why are they there, in such vital positions? This isn't a first daughter situation where the SA needs to relate to the protectee or blend in or whatever.

So if we just start there, it's emblematic of our institutional problems. At arguably the most important physical task in US law enforcement, we're sacrificing effectiveness for...something else. Optics, woke points, equality, to inspire, whatever.

A couple of decades ago, you could reliable claim that corporations only cared about profit or growth, or that the USSS or DOJ was a very serious bunch of professionals who could be dominating the private sector but instead were applying their obsessive personalities to the public sector for public good, to lay the groundwork for success in the private sector and the like. I think that's long over, and that cancer has spread and is spreading, and we're seeing all of these institutions hollowed out as they become more distracted by things outside of their core purpose.

Some will attribute this to the "swamp" and I do think this administrative purposeless allows swamp creatures to survive and thrive. But the most likely answer here is that it's the culmination of years of bureaucratic rot. In other words, I don't think this happened because of those female agents that looked lost in the chaos. But I think this happened because at some point the mission stopped being 100% protect the candidate and became 90% protect the candidate, 5% inspire the dreams of the underprivileged, 5% level the playing field, etc.