At a Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania on the evening of July 13, a lone gunman fired at former President Donald Trump. The gunman, a registered Republican, fired a semiautomatic AR-style rifle from a rooftop approximately 400 feet away, killing at least one civilian and clipping Trump’s right ear, before Secret Service sniper teams killed him.

The suspect, Thomas Matthew Crooks, followed popular gun and explosives channels and enjoyed shooting. Classmates said he was bullied every day in school, drawing similarities to other U.S. mass shooter events.

Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor Peter Zeihan analyzes the shooting and gives his impression of what he says it reveals about American and global politics today.

The following is an excerpt from Peter’s July 15 “Zeihan on Geopolitics” newsletter:

On Saturday, July 13, there was an attempted assassination of Donald Trump. I’m not here to give you the play-by-play that you can get from the news, instead I want to put this incident into context of the broader political and economic shifts.

America is experiencing a political realignment where party coalitions are breaking up and new factions are emerging. Trump, who has sparked some of these shifts, has both benefited from and lost supporters because of this. I’ve talked extensively about the economic shifts happening, but the global order is collapsing and most economies will be in a flux for a while.

With all this change, you can expect increased political and economic volatility, both domestically and internationally. You can parallel the present day shifts to times like the 1930s or Reconstruction in the U.S. While these changes might ultimately benefit the U.S., the transitionary period will be no snoozer… as evidenced by the events on July 13.