At the time of the attack, Israel and Hezbollah were fighting a conflict which had spiralled since Hezbollah fired at Israeli positions a day after Hamas's unprecedented attack on southern Israel 7 October 2023.

"Who's going to stand up to Trump if his actual opponents have embraced 'strategic silence' regarding all of his spiraling abuses?" lamented progressive pundit Brian Beutler in a newsletter headlined, "Democratic Capitulation Is Contagious."

She continued campaigning with her mother, but things began to spiral downhill.

“Everything is spiraling out of control,” Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party, said Monday.

"Everything is spiralling out of control. We simply cannot go on like this," he said.