Daily Inspiration Quote by Arthur Bremer

A sentence like this reads less like confession than self-mythology: a man appointing himself the lead character in a story he’s already decided will end in gunfire. “Now I start my diary” signals deliberation and ritual, the tone of a project log. “Personal plot” turns political murder into a private hobby, as if assassination were self-improvement with a darker syllabus. The specificity of “by pistol” isn’t just gruesome detail; it’s a pledge of method, a way to make the fantasy feel operational, inevitable.

The Nixon-or-Wallace pairing matters. Bremer isn’t articulating an ideology so much as shopping for a stage. Nixon represents the ultimate national spotlight; Wallace, the combustible theater of backlash politics and televised rage. The “either” is the tell: the target is interchangeable because the real object is notoriety. This is violence as branding strategy, an early, ugly precursor to the logic that attention can be extracted from the public at gunpoint.

Context sharpens the menace. In the early 1970s, American politics was already saturated with spectacle, security paranoia, and a sense of institutions fraying. Bremer’s line exploits that atmosphere while also revealing its pathology: the citizen who experiences democracy not as participation but as an audience to be forced into watching him. The diary format offers a counterfeit intimacy, inviting us into the planning not to understand it, but to witness his attempt to turn private grievance into public history.