Given Constant Villification, Assassination Attempt of Trump Shouldn’t Surprise

President Trump could have easily died last week.  The bullet whizzed by his head close enough to injure his ear.  Had his head been turning in a different direction, or at a different angle, he would likely have been killed.   

How did we get here?

In a way it’s not surprising; recall the deranged supporter of leftist Sen. Bernie Sanders who almost succeeded in killing U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise a few years ago.  In this instance the verbal political attacks morphed from rhetoric to rage and last week we witnessed the violence that is its natural conclusion. 

When an individual is demonized for years on end as a genuine “threat,” he is unavoidably made a target of violence.  That’s what we have with President Trump.  For years he has endured the hateful invective that he will be a “dictator”, or that he is a “Nazi”—an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs” or that he is inherently “evil” or that he represents “an existential threat” to the continuation of our country.  It’s all demonstrably untrue but to the mentally or emotionally imbalanced, it can have a dangerous effect.  My point is that these attacks on Pres. Trump are based upon him as a man, an individual.

Since he came down the escalator in 2016, there have been numerous threats of violence from Democrats in Congress, the music industry, and Hollywood.  Here, I cite only a few:  

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer threatened the life of Trump Supreme Court Nominees Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch by screaming at a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the decisions and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” 

Schumer’s rhetoric bled directly into an attempted assassination of Justice Kavanaugh, with an attempted murderer, arrested outside of Kavanaugh’s home, who said that he would be “shooting for 3” justices, according to the FBI’s search warrant application.

I note that “these awful decisions” which prompted Schumer’s violent rhetoric were decisions that sought to provide some additional legal protections to innocent, unborn Americans, like fundamental due process and equal protection of our laws.

Further, shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, Madonna said at a rally with 600,000 like-minded lunatics who cheered enthusiastically at her threat at the Women’s March: ‘I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.’  Democrat Lunatic Left Rep. Maxine Waters from California exhorted “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up.  And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.  And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”  Comedian Kathy Griffin elevated a bloodied and detached head of Donald Trump reminiscent of a terrorist assassination.

I recognize that the rage-filled rhetoric to which I refer is not one sided.  It certainly has been spewed by Trump supporters at Pres. Biden and his candidacy but the invective hurled at Biden tends to be policy based: that he is “purposely letting millions of illegals—including violent criminals, terrorists and child traffickers—into our country so the Democrats can turn them into voters”; or that Biden seeks “unlimited abortion” or that he wants to “take away our guns” or that he has “weakened our nation in the eyes of the world with debacles like Afghanistan”, or that due to his “mental and physical deterioration that he is not even running the country.”  Obviously, excepting the last one these attacks are policy-based.  

Not so with Trump.  It’s all personal. 

My point is that elected officials, the press, and political commentators have driven the rage-filled rhetoric that Trump would “kill democracy” and “unleash death squads.”  Remember, Biden himself previously denounced Trump and his “MAGA” supporters as “enemies of the people.”  In fact, just this week Biden told a group of supporters on a phone call that he now needed to “put a bullseye” on Trump.  

But now the Left tells us we need to “condemn political violence” in the U.S.  That’s rich!

We should thank God that we have been sent a warrior to save our nation, and Nov. 5 can’t come soon enough for its safety and healing.