Irish Examiner view: Sane voices never more important

Snowballing toward precipice

Four-term MEP and EU parliament vice-president Mairead McGuinness was proposed as Ireland’s new commissioner. Picture: RollingNews.ie

It is not necessary to see the future as bleakly as Margaret Atwood did in The Handmaid’s Tale, or as Cormac McCarthy did in his post-apocalyptic novel The Road, to fret about what might happen if one of the bizarre militias shadowing the US’s public protests loses control and the shooting starts. 

It seems immaterial whether the first shot might be fired by one of the patriots-for-prayer groups or one of the all-in-black alternatives who shield Black Lives Matter activists.