Why are Democrats Suddenly Regretting an Assassination Attempt on Hitler?
Do they actually believe their own rhetoric?
On July 13, 2024, somebody almost changed the course of history. A currently unidentified assassin shot at former president and presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. One bullet clipped Trump’s ear or cheek. Trump appeared momentarily puzzled at why his right ear was bleeding. He was then pulled down by Secret Service Agents and then rushed off stage, but not before Trump gave a fist pump of defiance. [1]
Leftists and Democrats have been calling for Trump’s assassination for weeks. [2] He’s been called a king, a fascist, and an existential threat to democracy. Whoopi Goldberg has assured millions of left-wingers who watch her on The View that Trump will put homosexuals into concentration camps and “disappear” journalists. Rachel Maddow on MSNBC has told her viewers that Trump will unleash “death squads.” In 2017, it was considered chic to stage the assassination scene in Julius Caesar with a character playing Trump as Caesar. According to MSNBC:
These are not fringe figures. They include the president:
And Nancy Pelosi:
And Barrack Obama:
This hysteria has been spun by mainstream left-wing media outlets:
It is virtually the legal tender on Medium:
No one should be surprised that someone would attempt to assassinate Trump. Leading Democrats and left-wing publications have raised the vitriol against Trump and “MAGA” to record levels. Biden gave an unreal, nearly Hitlerian speech in 2023 where he hysterically claimed that MAGA was set on destroying democracy.
I’m old enough to remember how Sara Palin was blamed for years about inciting the shooting of Gabby Giffords because she had an ad putting Gifford’s congressional seat in cross-hairs. The claim was nonsense, but probably still lives on in the conventional wisdom of low-information leftists. [3]
Ironically, on the Monday before the Saturday assassination attempt, President Biden said, “It’s time we put Trump in the cross-hair.” Under the standards set by the Democrats, this is “violent rhetoric,” which is presumptively responsible for the shooting. [4]
There is a predictable ebb and flow to the connection between rhetoric and political violence. When a Republican is in the White House, assassination talk becomes chic, and connections between rhetoric and political violence are airbrushed from the record, as occurred when a Sanders supporter shot at the entire Republican baseball team, hitting Congressman Steve Scalise. (Remember that? You probably don’t. The story was covered… with a pillow until it stopped breathing.)
On the other hand, when a Democrat is attacked, we hear about cross-hairs. In 2022, the idea of “stochastic terrorism” was all the rage as left-wing intellectuals attempted to link Trump’s rhetoric with any act of violence anywhere.
Obviously, the Dem leaders who have made the political environment toxic and incited their followers to violence don’t mean what they say about Trump. If they did — if they thought Trump was Hitler — they would not have said anything against the attempt.
This is bizarre. Sure, political niceties must be followed, but you don’t send a “get-well” card to Hitler — unless you know he isn’t Hitler.
What we now know is that Biden, Pelosi, AOC, and Obama have been creating a toxic political environment without regard for the well-being of the country. They know Trump is not an “existential threat to democracy.” They know that Trump is not Hitler. If they didn’t know the truth, they wouldn’t be doing anything other than expressing sorrow that the assassin did not kill the Most Evil Man in the World. [5]
Of course, the shooter is responsible for his own actions. It will be interesting to see what his manifesto says when we get it… sometime in 2025.
As a civil libertarian, I believe that free speech means that Democrats, Biden, Obama, Pelosi, and their media puppets can say whatever they like.
I also believe that the best remedy for bad speech is good speech, which means pointing out the obvious hypocrisy of the Democrats and their media puppets. I don’t think they will suffer any shame. They are brutes, but even brutes know when they have stepped on shit.
Also, I will be waiting for the explanation that the shooter was a White Supremacist or a Pro-Life activist since that has been what the FBI and DOD have been emphasizing over the last decade.
It will be interesting to see if there is any change of investigative priorities if the shooter has connections with Antifa.
As I said, the left-wing media is nasty, brutish, and stupid. It keeps up its usual tricks by acting as if it can still play the role of censor and Ministry of Truth. It will take years to learn. Anyone who is still relying on CNN is an idiot, to put it mildly.
We can have a better America.
It will involve liquidating the current journalism class and replacing it with people that are smarter and more objective.
And let Project Airbrush commence.
Obama’s speech writer wants everyone to calm down. Hey, let’s not start pointing fingers at the Democrats’ toxic rhetoric. Now is not the time to play the blame game.
Only Democrats get to play that game.
Footnotes:
- Basically, Teddy Roosevelt stuff. It could only have gotten more Roosevelt if Trump had been able to kick the shit out of the shooter. Up until this year, I was not particularly impressed by Trump. Now, after this and the way he took his arrest and conviction — pure political mendacity, in my opinion — as a man, I have come to reluctantly realize that Trump has virtues. His virtues are not mine, which would involve not having sex with a porn star. But his ability to lose and keep fighting, and being shot at and defiantly pumping his arm, are classic masculine virtues that I don’t know if I would be capable of. I won’t know until I’m tested and I do not want to be tested.
On which point, Jim Treacher has been an anti-Trump conservative, but he recognizes DT’s TR moment:
Regular readers of this newsletter, and people who hate my guts, don’t need to be told my opinion of Donald Trump. And speaking as someone who has managed to stay off the Trump Train for the past eight years:
This kicks ass.
Photo by Evan Vucci
The guy almost gets his brains blown out on live TV, and he stands up with blood on his face and pumps his fist in defiance. I think he said, “Fight!” Or maybe some other F-word. Whatever it was, it was awesome.
It may be the most American thing I’ve ever seen with my own eyes.
Whatever you may think of him as a person, or a past and probably future president, Trump showed us who he is in a moment of crisis.
And not a “crisis” like global warming or a Supreme Court ruling or the price of almond milk at Starbucks, but the crisis of actually getting hit in the head by a would-be assassin’s bullet.
Remarkable. My non-MAGA hat is off to him.
2. I am a fan of John McWhorter. I even asked him a question from the crowd about why he was supporting Barack Obama. He gave a good answer. I think he’s a solid person. I can’t understand why he would have lost his moral bearings the way he did based on what I know of him from his writing, but, hey!, I don’t know him.
3. I also remember how the shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise and the attempted murder of a large number of Republicans by a Bernie Sanders supporter was quickly airbrushed from history as everyone agreed that a candidate could not be blamed for the actions of his supporters. The victim — Congressman Scalise — is not as forgiving of the toxic rhetoric that almost got him killed.
4. To be clear, I don’t believe it is or did. But, then, I didn’t think that was the case when Democrats turned a normal turn of phrase into a smear against Sara Palin. The media and Democrats did, and as I explain, they should twist on their hypocrisy for a bit so that they will (a) back off the really toxic rhetoric of “existential threat,” and (b) stop claiming that normal phrases are “dangerous rhetoric.”
5. In contrast, these people are models of consistency and principle.
