There have been many calls for lowering the temperature between the first assassination attempt against Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, and the second on Sept. 15, 2024. Yet only two hours after last week’s attempt on Trump in Florida, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries lambasted “extreme MAGA Republicans,” saying “We must stop them,” leaving listeners to guess to whom he referred and how “they” should be stopped.
It’s part of a constant pattern since Trump emerged on the political scene, starting with assassination fantasies with “the resistance,” continuing through the Russian collusion hoax, and aided by protective agencies’ refusal to secure conservative figures.
It’s not just the typically aggressive political rhetoric. Leftists have openly engaged in direct assassination fantasies for years. A conspicuous movement to dehumanize one particular person in America has continuously expanded since early 2016, when “the resistance” formed. Madonna infamously proclaimed, “I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House,” signaling the cultural zeitgeist controllers would wage a no-holds-barred siege against Trump.
Kathy Griffin followed in kind, publicizing an image of herself holding Trump’s dripping severed head. Shortly afterward, nightly showings of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in New York’s Central Park were capped by the assassination of an unmistakably Trumpian Caesar. Feelers for assassination were going out.
As of 2017, “the resistance” could claim, consequence-free, that Trump deserved anything he got, up to and including murder. The cultural left intended to not only marginalize Trump, but also to fully demonize and dehumanize him. The race was on to define Trump as the most dangerously destructive person in America. The sheer scale of the propaganda no doubt seized the imaginations of many with dreams of fame and glory. The seeds of assassination were thus widely sown.
The Russia collusion hoax, funded by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee and boosted by the CIA and FBI, consumed years of Americans’ attention, not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars. During its height, legacy media ceaselessly reiterated that Trump was a threat and no better than Adolf Hitler, further inspiring would-be assassins.
In 2022, after concluding Trump’s popularity meant Democrats could only defeat him outside the normal arenas of political debate and elections, President Biden made his famous red wall speech claiming “MAGA Republicans” were undermining democracy. All these elements placed America’s political discourse on simmer, directly encouraging potential assassins of Trump and “MAGA Republicans.” As John Solomon remarked last week, the elements worked together to “boil the water” of American politics into two assassination attempts on Trump in the past two months.
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