I keep thinking about this, and the Georgia official who said, “This has to stop. Somebody’s going to get killed,” and it occurs to me (as Trump hinted back when he was running in 2016) that that would not bother him. He wants it.
If he doesn’t care about the hundreds of thousands dead and dying from the virus, why would he care about one more getting shot? He wants a martyr for the (his) cause.
Can you imagine what use he and his minions would make of a dead Trumpist? All they have to do is threaten enough, without pulling a trigger, and somebody on the other side will fire the shot that turns one of them into a chanting slogan.
The shooter could even be the Trumpist fanatic most eager to sacrifice himself for the sake of the result. A loyal Judas. Nothing about this idea should surprise us, given the context.