Without thinking that assassination is a particularly effective political tactic, I suspect that its presence serves as a decent marker for the degree to which society considers the status quo inevitable.
If it's widely believe that the world can quickly and radically change some number of people will go for the quick fix, overly simplistic approach of just killing the guy at the top.
So, for instance, the rush of assassination attempts against Gerald Ford in September 1975 accurately captures the eschatological, "everything is in terrible flux" feel of the 1970s.
In which case the counterintuitive lack of assassination attempts against Trump suggest we need to wildly round up our sense of how widespread capitalist realism is, and how little belief there is that consensus reality can be challenged.
The prevailing belief appears to be that the world cannot be changed—a damning revelation to anyone invested in a platform of short term radicalism.
Basically, if Trump was insufficient to provoke any sort of major rupture in the belief that the world is how it is and there's nothing that can be done then we need to dramatically reassess assumptions like that a full fascist takeover or severe climate catastrophe will either.
My long term recommendation remains unchanged: haunt the future in an elaborate utopian long con
My short term recommendation is much more focused on intentional communities. Not just community building and localism, but communities that can successfully insulate themselves from consensus reality.
Don't just have a community, have a community that doubles as a pocket of customized reality.
Note that insulated is not the same as oblivious. Insulation from consensus reality takes continuous work and effort.
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