It's been less than a week since the latest attempt on President Donald Trump's life.
This wasn't a couple of guys in a Waffle House talking about how they needed to take Trump out, either. This is the third active plan that's been stopped while being committed. That's...something.
Smack in the middle of them, however, was the assassination of Charlie Kirk, dead to a gunman who bought into the violent rhetoric that Charlie was a "threat" to the trans community, all because he said things they didn't like.
Trump has power, so I can see rhetoric about the threat he represents being a bit more realistic, but the truth is that realism doesn't really matter all that much.
And, as a piece over at TheBlaze notes, this is becoming far too normal.
Donald Trump has survived another assassination attempt from a deranged progressive. Thankfully, Cole Allen was never able to get a clear shot at the president, but the fact that another radical leftist managed to smuggle a long gun into the event site should alarm everyone. Despite multiple attempts on Trump’s life and the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, progressives have only intensified their rhetoric, including open calls for violence. Democrats are not interested in turning down the temperature or abandoning political violence; they are only disappointed that the “lone wolves” they inspired have been unsuccessful. Progressives see political violence as their birthright and will not stop deploying it unless they are stopped with immediate and severe consequences.
While Democrats will deliver tired platitudes about political violence having no place in our country, the truth is that violence has been central to their strategy for a long time. From the race riots of the 1960s to the terror bombings of the 1970s to modern-day assassinations, leftists have regularly wielded violence. It is comforting to pretend that our political system is one in which peaceful negotiation and intellectual debate drive every outcome, but that simply is not the case. Whether it’s the intimidation of Supreme Court justices or the shooting of members of Congress, Democrats understand the power of violence and do not hesitate to use it.
I'd love to dispute this, but I remember these incidents well.
I know there are studies that claim right-wing violence is more prevalent, but they also count every act of violence by a member of the Aryan Nation or similar organization as "right-wing violence" when it's really just gang violence. While this gang has a political focus with its white supremacy stupidity, they're just a violent gang that isn't even necessarily committing violence in the name of the cause.
They're just morons.
Now, a couple of high-profile Democrats were shot in Minnesota far too recently, and the guy arrested was apparently a Trump supporter, but he also said that he was doing a solid for Gov. Tim Walz, so while he might be on the right, he's a nut.
He's also the exception.
Surveys show that Democrats are many times more likely to support the use of violence in order to achieve their political aims than Republicans or Independents. In the aftermath of the first Trump assassination attempt, the general consensus among the rank and file Democrats was to be upset by Thomas Crooks's aim, not the act of violence. Luigi Mangione has celebrity status among these same people for his alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. They celebrated Charlie Kirk's murder, too.
I'm sorry, but a lot of these folks are terrible people who want their opponents dead.
The reality is that while the right-wing militia movement scared the crap out of the left back in the 1990s, the right might talk about preparing for violence, but they're not really interested in instigating it. We could have long, meandering discussions as to why that's the case, but it's also the truth, and we all know it.
"But January 6th!"
Yes, an unguided tour of the Capitol, with people taking the lectern and walking around like the Grand Poobah of the Loyal Order of the Water Buffaloes, is totally the same thing as yet another assassination attempt involving multiple firearms and a former teacher of the month who was ready to die in order to take out the bulk of the Trump administration.
And the truth is that we're seeing absolutely nothing suggesting the rhetoric will tone down.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies called for "maximum warfare" before the attack, and has refused to back down on this rhetoric. The problem is, while the term "warfare" can be metaphorical, it can also be taken to mean literal warfare. Failing to back down here suggests that Jefferies knows what he's doing and he's fine with it, and he's far from alone.
The right might talk a big game, but they're hesitant to declare it go time. That's a very good thing, in my book, because it means a belief that the system can still work.
Far too few Democrats seem to care about the system unless it's benefiting them at that particular moment.
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