One year removed from a devastating shooting at a Republican baseball practice, the mood at the Congressional Baseball Game was decisively less somber than it had been the year before.
One year before, representatives and senators—regardless of party— gathered on the field together to pray for Steve Scalise, injured in a shooting that injured six others as well, and nearly killed Scalise—whose life was in jeopardy with a bullet in his hip.
Last night was somewhat of a contrast: representatives and senators across party lines expressed gratitude and thankfulness—that Scalise was still around; that the game could go on unchanged for the most part—a level of unity that, if history serves as any example, won’t last for long.