Springsteen Sparks Civility Moment as He Calls for Peaceful Politics

Bruce Springsteen opened his Austin show with a “prayer of thanks” that no one at the White House or within Trump’s orbit was injured in the WHCD shooting, urged that disagreement is fine but political violence has no place in the U.S., and used the moment to frame his tour as a defense of democracy while criticizing Trump’s policies, including cuts to USAID and NATO, calling the era a time of “dark times.”