Actual political violence is very rare. Assassinations and assassination attempts are almost always from just plain crazy folks, and it’s a fool’s errand to try to classify crazy. Maybe the shooter thought that Trump was the Antichrist, or maybe they thought he was Christ and it was necessary for him to be martyred to complete his apotheosis. Maybe they thought that the bullets would bounce off of him, proving that he was superhuman. Maybe they thought the lizard-people’s mind control rays were forcing them to do it. No, those explanations don’t make sense. They don’t make sense because they’re the motivations of a crazy person.
There is such a thing as genuinely political violence, but an incomprehensible crazy is the way to bet.