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It has long been a staple of stump speeches President Joe Biden To Compare Donald Trump and his supporters to NazisAnd his fellow Democrats and the liberal media are eagerly promoting his exaggerated statements.
Now, sadly, but predictably, this type of conversation has led to someone being murdered.
Most people believe that killing Hitler would have been a good and moral thing to do if it would have prevented the genocide he committed. We even have a parlor game that suggests he was so evil he should have been killed as an infant. Comparing someone to the Nazi dictator is a clear invitation to violence.
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The Democrats, in their lust for power and obsession with Trump, don’t care about any of this.
At 8 p.m. the night before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Biden posted on X, “Americans want a president, not a dictator.” This isn’t just Biden. For nearly a decade, Democrats have been promoting the rhetoric and leading the country toward this political violence.
In 2018, Representative Maxine Waters called on her supporters to publicly harass members of the Trump administration. “You tell them they’re not welcome anywhere anymore,” Waters angrily said.
More recently in this election cycle, former Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill went on I want to say to MSNBC, and I’m not making this up, that Trump is not only on a par with Hitler and Mussolini, but more dangerous than them.
Meanwhile, just last week the New Republic magazine released a cover with a picture of a face that looked half Hitler and half Trump. It seemed like they were giving a moral license to kill.
All this time, conservative and centrist Americans have been urging Democrats and their media allies to stop this, to stop treating Trump and, more importantly, his supporters as fascists. We knew where this would lead.
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I was at Tony Packo’s in Toledo interviewing Eric and Charlie, two guys who work on cargo ships in the Great Lakes, when the news came in. The guys came up to the bar where we were sitting, with Hungarian hot dogs in front of us, and asked the barkeep to turn on the news.
It was a moment so important and terrifying that it was impossible to watch it on your phone alone. We all watched, and over and over again, we saw Trump fall to the deck, clutching his neck.
There may be elements of the American right who find this kind of rhetoric dehumanizing to the left, but for progressives it’s the right thing to do.
But honestly, the mood in the room wasn’t one of shock. It wasn’t “how could this happen.” It was a tired and sad surrender to the polarized and mean-spirited nature of our times.
I asked, “Were you surprised that this happened?”
Charlie, a tough but well-spoken man from Minnesota, looked at me and said softly, “No.”
And how can he, or any of us, be surprised by that? We are feeling the heat of what is being said these days in the name of left-wing debates, screaming that Trump will be a dictator who will destroy American democracy.
The United States was founded on the belief that it is moral to kill human beings to free citizens from tyranny and dictatorship. That is why we do not make such accusations against our fellow citizens lightly, unless it is Donald Trump or someone in a red MAGA hat. In that case, do just that.
Today, after the near assassination of a former president and leading candidate, you will hear serious voices in the liberal media, the same ones who just days ago warned loudly about the unique threat posed by Trump, and said this is a problem on both sides.
No. It’s not like that.
There may be elements of the American right who find this kind of rhetoric dehumanizing to the left, but for progressives it’s the right thing to do. their mainstream media In which there is a demand to expel Trump. They do this on cable news networks, not on some dubious website.
Those espousing the dangerous rhetoric and ravings about the threats posed by Donald Trump to our society and lives will say the attacker messed up politics, was probably crazy, or, since they are Democrats, they will blame the gun.
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But that’s no excuse either. After all, based on the rhetoric of Democrats and many in the media, the shooter did exactly what should be done to a Hitler-like potential fascist dictator.
If anything good can come from this terrible tragedy, in which one man performing his civic duty at a political rally was killed and two others were injured, it is that Democrats should realize this is not right, because they are inviting yet more violence.
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America will emerge from this horrific event, bloodied, yes, but like Trump himself who rose to the podium after being shot, we will rise again. We will reject the violent rhetoric and abuse and insist, with raised fists, that there is no place for it in America.
As for Democrats, the message to them should be as clear as the summer sun: This has to stop, and it has to stop now.
