If words lead to violence, are the Democrats trying to get Trump killed?
I know we don’t talk about such things, but if the various Democratic presidential candidates say that irresponsible invective drives people to violence, I think it’s fair to ask if they’re trying to get Trump assassinated.
Because they’re saying worse about him than he’s said about anybody. And theirs is driven by a rawer, less restrained and more rabid brand of personal hatred than we typicallysee in this society. We hear far worse directed at Trump than we’ve ever heard come out of Trump.
And if it is the honest belief of Beto and Biden and MSNBC that Donald Trump is causally responsible for the white-supremacist terrorist attack in El Paso, then their even-harsherdenunciation of him can only be expected to similarly prod the unstable closer to violence.
If characterizing some illegal aliens as rapists and murderers, and calling their unchecked sweep into this country an invasion, is sufficient to trigger a mass murder, then sayingthat the president of the United States is a racist who is destroying the country would likewise be sufficient to drive troubled people to violence, right?
Specifically, sufficient to drive troubled people to violence against the president of the United States.
If Trump is Hitler in the narrative of the progressives, if he is the embodiment and empowerment of white supremacy, if he is leading a purge if not genocide of Latinos in America,isn’t there some threshold in the mind of the deranged in which they would see killing the president as morally justified and socially desirable?
Have these people never heard what happened to McKinley?
We never speak of killing the president in this country, we do not even mention the topic. But perhaps we should. Because there can be no doubt that the hateful anti-Trump attacksof everybody from The Squad to the commentators and candidates must raise the Secret Service threat assessment of the president’s safety.
When the news media and the Democratic Party declare the president a white supremacist, what feelings does that engender in those who are not white? Disapproval, or rage? Disagreement,or desperation?
Does the invective of the Democrats in the press or running for president seem to be focused more on persuasion or revolution? Is it intended to make people think, or to makepeople mad? And not just mad, but mad as hell? Intensely, unrestrainably enraged. Are they building this passion to storm the ballot box, or to storm the Bastille?
And does it never occur to them that by focusing this hatred on the president that they endanger his life?
And doesn’t that bother them?
And, if they were completely honest, about the deepest thoughts of their hearts, do they believe that the assassination of the president would be a good thing, or a bad thing?
We were raised with stories and movies in which the monster always gets killed, and they have made Trump the monster of the modern world. Not just a person with a different pointof view, but an immediate and malicious threat to the existence of the United States and the safety of its people.
And maybe the world.
As climate-change hysteria gets ratcheted up, as the new socialist Democrats use it as their political lever, a narrative is created in which Trump is literally going to destroythe world. As the Democrats claim that in five or 12 or 20 years the balance will be forever unbalanced and global warming will wipe out peoples and lands, is there not a point wherein you have to expect that some fruit loop is going to try to take down theguy Democrats claim is killing the world?
If the El Paso terrorist cited the global warming impact of overpopulation as one of the reasons for murder – as he did – isn’t it possible that another profoundly evil or profoundlyinsane person would see Trump – the progressives’ global-warming boogey man – as an even more appealing target?
And how can the Democrats not realize this?
How can they think for half a moment that standing up, as Joe Biden did, and demonizing the president can do anything but endanger the president?
Or is that what they intend?
If the argument is that political vilification is dangerous, how can they be blind to their danger of their own words?
We have just had two acts of political terrorism, one spawned by the right and another spawned by the left. We have seen in blood how dangerous our words can be. It is not a matterof speculation any more, it is a heartbreakingly proven fact.
We should learn from that. Not double down.
The unstable among us can be pushed to violence by the passion of our politics – against a race, or a person. When we attack and denigrate, we enflame and endanger.
We all need to learn that.
Including those who endanger the life and family of the president of the United States by their progressive hate speech.