Winston Churchill once famously said that “nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
For Donald Trump, the failed assassination attempt in Pennsylvania could prove politically exhilarating. After rising with a fist pump and a call to fight on, Trump seems to have gone from being a movement to a mythological figure with his supporters. All he needs now is a big blue ox named Babe to return to the campaign trail.
This assassination attempt should also concentrate the minds of everyone on the escalating rhetoric in this campaign, particularly the media in maintaining inflammatory narratives. Yet, the hateful and unhinged language has continued unabated from academics declaring that the assassination attempt was staged to those who complain that the only problem was that Thomas Matthew Crooks missed.
For years, Democrats have repeated analogies of Trump to Hitler and his followers to brownshirted neo-Nazis. Indeed, defeating Trump has been compared to stopping Hitler in 1933.
The narrative began as soon as Trump was elected when the press and pundits uniformly and falsely claimed that Trump had praised neo-Nazis and Klansmen in 2017 as “fine people” in Charlottesville.
Watching Trump’s statement at the time, it was clear to most of us that Trump condemned the neo-Nazis and that the statement about “fine people on both sides” was in reference to the debate over the removal of historic statues.
It took six years for Snopes to finally have the courage to do a fact check and declare the common attack to be false.
It did not matter. The press and politicians have hammered away at the notion that Trump is seeking to end democracy and that everyone from gay people to reporters will be “disappeared.”
After the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity, Rachel Maddow went on the air with a hysterical claim that “death squads” had just been green lighted by conservatives. Democratic strategist Jame Carville insists that Trump’s reelection will bring “the end of the Constitution.”
It is all what I call “rage rhetoric” in my new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.” The book explores centuries of rage politics and political violence. This is not our first age of rage but it could well be the most dangerous.
Two years before the assassination attempt, I appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify on the expansion of domestic terrorism investigations. Democrats were seeking to pressure the FBI to focus on far-right groups as potential terrorist groups. The use of political views rather than conduct has been used historically to crackdown on groups from socialists to anarchists to feminists.
The narrative that the threat of violence is coming primarily from the Right is demonstrably false but consistently echoed in the media.
We have seen a growing level of leftist violence in the last decade. That includes riots in cities like Portland and Seattle where billions of dollars of damage occurred, hundreds of officers injured, and many citizens killed. In 2020 alone, 25 people were killed in the protests.
The Democrats often raise the Jan. 6th riot and it is important to acknowledge that the damage extended to an attack on our constitutional process. However, the preceding protest around the White House caused more injuries and more property damage. Then President Trump had to be removed to a safe location as Secret Service feared a breach of the White House.
There were a reported 150 officers injured (including at least 49 Park Police officers around the White House) in the Lafayette Park riot. Protesters caused extensive property damage including the torching of a historic structure and the attempted arson of St. John’s Church.
Mass shootings by leftist gunmen have repeatedly occurred but those are treated as one offs while any conservative shooter is part of a pattern of right-wing violence.
Keith Ellison, the Democratic attorney general of Minnesota, mocked the notion of liberal violence. In one tweet, he declared “I have never seen @BernieSanders supporters being unusually mean or rude. Can someone send me an example of a ‘Bernie Bro’ being bad. Also, are we holding all candidates responsible for the behavior of some of their supporters? Waiting to hear.”
Republican Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana replied dryly: “I can think of an example.” Scalise was severely wounded at the 2017 shooting at a congressional baseball game practice by a Sanders supporter.
Ellison was a particularly ironic Democratic politician to repeat this mantra. When he was the Democratic National Committee deputy chair, Ellison praised Antifa, a violent anti-free speech group that regularly attacks conservatives, pro-lifers, and others.
Ellison said Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump. This was after Antifa had been involved in numerous acts of violence and its website was banned in Germany.
Ellison’s son, Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, declared his allegiance to Antifa in the heat of the protests this summer. When confronted about Antifa’s violence, then House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler denied that the group existed. Likewise, Joe Biden has dismissed objections to Antifa as just “an idea.”
In the meantime, Biden has called Trump and his supporters “enemies of the people.” He recently said that the threat to democracy was so great that debates are no solution: “we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
Even after the attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the media has failed to see a pattern while stoking the claim of a right-wing violent movement.
In the meantime, Democrats previously filed to strip Secret Service protection from Trump. The former Chair of the J6 Committee and the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee introduced the legislation, called Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED).
The press and pundits continue to tell Americans that Trump and his supporters are going to kill democracy and probably those they love. While most people dismiss the rage rhetoric, there are some who take it as a license to take the most extreme action.
We are still learning about Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, who was killed after trying to assassinate Trump. A registered Republican, Crooks gave money to ActBlue to support Democratic candidates.
Yet, we know him all too well. He is likely to be found to be a lonely, unhinged individual who found meaning in an attempted political murder.
Thomas Crooks like Nicholas Roske (who tried to kill Justice Kavanaugh) are the faces that watch from the political shadows. They hear leaders telling them to stop the Nazis before democracy dies . . . and they believe them.
As for Democrats, the anger evident every night on cable networks may reflect a degree of insecurity about becoming the very thing that they are campaigning against. It is time for the party to look around to take stock of its anti-democratic policies.
Democratic secretaries of state have sought to block not just Trump but third-party candidates from ballots to prevent voters from supporting them.
They have called for cleansing ballots of over 120 other Republicans. They have supported censorship, blacklisting, and other attacks on free speech.
As a lifelong Democrat, I have repeatedly asked what we have become in this age of rage. If we embrace groups like Antifa, oppose free speech, and cleanse ballots, we will have little beyond our rage to sustain us.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
The difference between Crooks and Roske is that after texting his sister about what he was planning to do Roske called the police on himself and was arrested without incident. Unfortunately, Crooks did not have that “breakthrough moment”.
Democrats lament that people would vote for a ‘guy like Trump’, they just can’t understand it. My answer is “look in the mirror”.
Musk says SpaceX, X moving HQs out of California over transgender law
“I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children,” the SpaceX CEO added.”
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4775245-elon-musk-spacex-x-headquarters-california-texas/
This is what sane, normal people do when the state tries to get in between parents and their children. They leave. And take their tax dollars with them.
Upstate, the funny thing is that liberals, like AOC with Amazon, don’t care about no stinkin’ jobs because they have theirs.
But maybe not for long.
HullBobby,
Good point.
Although I am reading Squad member Cori Bush is trailing her Democrat challenger by 23 points.
Some may be out of a job and soon.
Very true, Upstate.
@Upstate Farmer: Re: “This is what sane, normal people do..” “We shall see what sane, normal people do should this glamour puss of a snake-oil salesman makes his pitch for the Oval Office in 2008.
You keep saying you are a lifelong Democrat. I hope by now you have changed your registration to at leas No Party Affiliation!!
@James
That is not this James, FYI. My email address always pulls up the blue av, and I do not post anonymously. I’m fine with people doing what they wish. It’s the stubborn obtuseness that baffles me, personally.
Seems that the Professor is on the verge of an epiphany. We have known the democrats of this century do not bear any real resemblance to the “old” Democratic Party. The have become the party of facism, violence, political violence, lawfare, win at no matter the cost is to the country. They can’t tolerate 3rd, 4th or 5th parties on the ballot. They hate the Supreme Court because it makes them legislate (ie:do their job) instead of the courts doing their work for them. The Supreme Court has sent enough messages to them like The overturning of Chevron, actually appointing and confirming a us attorney to be a special prosecutor instead of using a private citizen off the streets, giving the president immunity for official acts just like the immunity the constitution gives congress. Enacting legislation to forgive debt instead of illegal executive orders. In other words they should do their constitutional duty and legislate but of course they will need to talk to and compromise with Gasp! Republicans.
It totally escapes the Democratic Party that all the hate and invective that streams out every night from TV screens are controlled by minions of their party. They have become what they say they detest.
Time that they were turned out and cleansed from the body politic. The poison they preach is national suicide if we don’t clean it out. The democrats should look at what stands behind Trump. Certainly a leaner, meaner and very combative group of young leaders. If anything Trump is the restraining hand. They should think about that.
Why We’ll Never Know What Really Happened in Butler, PA
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/why-well-never-know-what-really-happened-in-butler-pa/
Antifa militants attack Christian families at Jesus March in Portland
https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-militants-attack-christian-families-at-jesus-march-in-portland
There are your brownshirts.
Read the new book by Nellie Bowles (wife of Bari Weiss), Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History. She provides detailed information in the first chapter on what ANTIFA did during the CHAZ Seattle mayhem. They are loyal to no one, but especially to blacks, latinos, asians, gays, etc. They are domestic terrorists.
Estovir,
That is right! She did have a book come out recently. Will do and thanks!
Do an internet search for “CHAZ Antifa”. You will find next to nothing.
Shockingly, the online links to leftist “news” articles glorifying CHAZ are still live. These people glorify violence hence Biden / MSM continuing their dangerous rhetoric
Seattle’s newly police-free neighborhood, explained
Jun 16, 2020, 3:40 PM EDT
Best known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, the neighborhood has flourished since police left the area to protesters last week.
Right-wing panic over the protest zone
Initial media reports about the zone, especially at Fox News and throughout the conservative mediasphere, portrayed the autonomous zone as a kind of anarchist threat to society. …Further, several right-leaning media outlets reported that local business owners had been approached by armed anarchists who demanded mob-like protection payments. That has since been debunked by business owners who explained that it was false and that the local businesses were racking up much-needed sales after being hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/6/16/21292723/chaz-seattle-police-free-neighborhood
ANTIFA is never mentioned. Vox: All lies.
Nellie Bowles reported a far different scenario after visiting and interviewing business owners inside CHAZ. Her NY Times bosses were furious with her for visiting CHAZ.
……and no law enforcement intervention as a matter of course.
Clinton and Biden hate talk made Trump shooting ‘inevitable’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3085160/claim-clinton-and-biden-hate-talk-made-trump-shooting-inevitable/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
She is not wrong.
The Democrats embraced the far left. The problem with doing so is that once embraced, it is difficult to distance oneself from them. They liked when Antifa and BLM threatened conservatives and brought money and votes to the party. They wanted the protests against Israel and the Jews when they did the same. They wanted to create fear and permitted to do so, they wanted to kill.
Today we look for more peaceful dialogue, but Democrats will not be able to separate from these violent anarchists, and those above are but two of the violent groups that inhabit the Democrat Party.
Unfortunately, most of the Democrats do not think past the next election and are now reaping what they sowed.
Does Vance have a soul? I’m guessing it’s about as big as trumps, in other words, no, he has no soul, no personal beliefs other than I want power.
A “Never Trump” Republican at one point in time, Vance once called the former president “America’s Hitler” and “a cynical a—hole like Nixon” in a message to a friend.
“There is no self-reflection in the midst of a false euphoria,” Vance, whose mother struggled with opioid addiction, wrote. “Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.”
As a senator, Vance lobbied to defeat Ohio’s constitutional amendment that ensured access to abortion, calling it a “gut punch” after the measure passed.
On immigration, Vance falsely claimed in 2022 that Biden’s “open border” meant that “more Democrat voters were “pouring into this country.” Immigrants who cross the border illegally cannot vote in federal elections. The process for immigrants to become citizens and therefore gain the right to vote can take a decade or longer. Fact, non citizens cannot vote in Federal elections.
The comments Vance made about Trump were in 2016 long before Trump proved himself to be anything but a fascist. As for illegals voting in Federal elections, they are being given voter registration forms by NGOs when the illegal applies for aid. Look in the mirror to see where the fascism really comes from.
“in 2016 long before Trump proved himself to be anything but a fascist.”
Wow, you’ve drank the kool aid. trump is the very definition of a fascist.
fascism
noun
(sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
You forgot to mention trump is a convicted felon.
A second cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrat apparatchik tried this:
You forgot to mention trump is a convicted felon.
You forgot to mention that Bribery Biden’s hand picked Special Counsel found that he was guilty of DECADES of felonies involving the theft of classified documents and then sharing those classified documents with The First Felon Crackhead First Son.
And that hand picked Special Counsel only gave Bribery Biden a temporary parole by using a different version of James Comey’s “no reasonable ” to let Clinton off the hook. You wouldn’t bet your welfare checks on Trump still being a felon after his appeals get out of that New York district.
How sure are you that the next Attorney General who replaces corrupt Merrick Garland won’t direct that prosecution of then former president Bribery Biden will proceed, and a decision about conviction left to the jury. Not a handpicked Special Counsel using his Biden DoJ opinion to replace the finding of a jury.
You also forgot to mention that the So Far Unindicted Felon Bribery Biden is now running the country from the White House in a partnership with The First Felon Crackhead First Son. How great is it that this country has a president whose primary advisor is a convicted felon, massive tax cheat, drug addict, sex pervert, who was booted out of the military in disgrace for doing drugs while in uniform!
Best guess is that Bribery Biden is continuing to share classified information with The First Felon Crackhead First Son as he did from the Vice President’s office before.
And no doubt the nuclear codes as well.
Not yet as his sentencing has been delayed. Try to keep up!
Another cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrat coward tried this:
Wow, you’ve drank the kool aid. trump is the very definition of a fascist.
Oh Look! Another Soviet Democrat is staggering drunk on the Bolshevik Barack kool aid! The Soviet Democrats whose record in the Oval Office and Congress is remarkably similar to your definition of socialism. While Trump’s is the opposite – which is why he enrages you Soviet Democrat totalitarians.
Trump’s a fascist? Oh, like Mussolini – whose fascism was simply an imitation of what Lenin called his “third way communism” both of which combined market-based mechanisms and communism. Which is similar to the communism currently used by Biden’s paymaster and puppet master: Communist China’s “market socialism”.
And yet you claim Trump’s just communist lite fascist as Mussolini was?
You communists are pathetic. Feel free to give examples of Trump going police state fascist by creating a false document like a “Russia Dossier”, and then telling the FBI to use that lie to try and forcibly take out political opponents.
Obama and Obama’s Third Way Communism under Biden has a record that meets your
From ‘Never-Trump’ to veep pick, Vance’s transformation embodies nation’s shift toward Trump
“J.D. Vance indicated that he had made a mistake by allowing himself to be swept up into narratives surrounding the president, rather than judging Trump for himself.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/never-trump-vp-vances-transformation-encapsulates-holdout-shift-toward-trump
That is what sane, normal people do. Look at the situation objectively, assess the facts, ignore the MSM noise, and make their own assessment.
Hey Anonymous, Biden’s VP called him a racist, any comment?
I’d say a pretty accurate description
You are so blind, obnoxious and ignorant that you use an anonymous name. Even you know your words are those of a foolish person one would not want to be associated with.
Trump prevented war, kept the border closed, provided a good economy and more. Today we have to worry about terrorism and the results of illegal immigration; murder, theft, rape, slavery and prostitution. We just saw an assassination attempt brought on by Democrat talking points and possibly assisted by those in power.
Vance was young and didn’t know who the President was. Now, he knows and supports him closely. It was easy to make Vance’s mistake with all the lies created by the MSM and Democrats. You are more of the same. You hate democracy, and that is why you do not wish the people to vote on abortion. You have no problems with murder, whether it be Islamists slaughtering Jews, the Antifa killings, illegals killing Americans, drugs like Fentanyl killing our children, or killing babies by pulling their arms and legs off. You are a horrible human being and detest the right of Americans to vote without the vote being diluted by Democrat cheating. No one on this blog can deal with your hate and ignorance. The best we can do is to point out your errors so others can see them and do the same.
A cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrat continued pulling the Lying Hate Speech Rage Machine Train days after a failed assassination of Trump:
Does Vance have a soul?
Are you hoping to inspire Overlooked Rooftop Sniper v2.0, you nameless Soviet Democrat lying coward?
Hoping you can just drive past Vice President Kamala Harris calling Biden a RAPIST and a RACIST to his face?
Hoping you can drive past Vice President Kamala Harris defending and encouraging violent Soviet Democrat street thugs assaulting the White House in attempts to murder President Trump and his family? You post this after Trump was wounded in a murder attempt, while Harris justified the June 1st 2020 assault on the White House with this:
“Everyone beware. They’re not gonna stop before election day in November, and they’re not gonna stop after election day … They’re not gonna let up, and they should not.”
so when does the DOJ go after Soros for Terrorism? Antifa is funded by Soros…so why nothing?
Oh wait they are the Sturmabteilung of the FASCIST Democrats…that is why!
Nobody wants to hear this because of the implications, but oh well: Joe Biden’s security regime deliberately and with malice aforethought created the conditions that led to an assassin shooting Donald Trump in the head. It is by the grace of God that he lived and our nation is not currently in the midst of a violent civil war.
They deliberately starved Trump’s security team of the resources it needed. And they did it repeatedly, over many weeks and months.
With Trump’s security detail understaffed, under-resourced, and stretched to its limits, Biden’s security regime diverted even more resources to a hastily planned Jill Biden event that just happened to be in the area.
Biden’s security regime then ordered the most obvious assassination perch in the entire area to remain outside the main security perimeter.
Furthermore, Biden’s Secret Service director ordered law enforcement and counter-snipers OFF the roof that the assassin used.
If that weren’t enough, Biden’s security regime also refused to block line of sight from the assasssin’s perch to Trump’s location.
When law enforcement radioed in a suspicious person using a laser range finder at the building and even took photos of him, nothing was done to detain the assassin.
The assassin was so obviously a threat that bystanders at the event begged law enforcement to stop him, but nothing happened.
And even as snipers on the roof near Trump saw a gunman on the roof, Biden’s security regime refused to have agents immediately surround Trump and remove him from the stage to protect him from being shot.
Given the lies and nonsense from both Biden’s DHS secretary and his Secret Service director, it’s increasingly difficult to believe this was a just a series of independent mistakes. In contrast, when you look at the entire picture, what you see better resembles a deliberate plan to make Trump vulnerable but to appear at first glance to be just a couple of innocent mistakes.
And when you add in how little information we’ve been given about the about the shooter—apparently the only person on earth not on the Internet—you begin to wonder if maybe a group of people at a different three-letter agency might have been working on a parallel track to find and encourage people to take action against Trump at the very same time he was kept vulnerable by Biden’s regime.
We know this happens, because the FBI did it with Gretchen Whitmer: it recruited and urged disturbed individuals to buy weapons and put together a plan to kidnap her. In that case, the FBI wanted a story it could use to slime right-wingers. So it created the story itself.
What happens when an agency like that, or maybe even another three-letter agency, decides instead that it’s had enough of Trump? Some former FBI employees might even call it an “insurance policy.”
So who was the shooter talking to in the hours, days, and weeks ahead of the event? Who was he meeting with? Did anyone suggest or nudge or urge him to go to the Trump rally in Butler? Did anyone suggest or point out to him the building he eventually used? Was he told at any time to not worry about security?
The FBI told us almost immediately that while it couldn’t open the assassin’s phone, it knew he acted alone. That’s kind of strange, when you think about it. They told us almost immediately that they identified him by DNA, despite him having no criminal record. They also said they found explosives in his car. Why didn’t they just identify him by his plates or registration or next of kin identification? That’s pretty weird, too.
At some point you just have to say enough with the lies. We saw what they did with the Russia hoax. We saw the Kavanaugh hoax. We saw the COVID origin hoax. We saw the Ukraine hoax, the stolen election, the J6 op, and then the armed Mar-a-Lago raid and the myriad illegal cases against Trump.
They called him Hitler. They said he was an existential threat. They said he would destroy democracy. They said he was the most dangerous person on earth.
Then the denied him security. The kept the rooftop open. They watched the shooter and did nothing. They kept Trump on that stage. And they didn’t do a damn thing until after he had been shot in the head.
And we’re all supposed to believe it was just an innocent oopsie?
it is stunning people still say they are democrats….while rationalizing away EACH and EVERY crime of THE Democrats.
There is NO ONE more Hate Filled, Greedy, Lying, Violent, Hypocrite than a Democrat. They TRULY HATE America
Is this one of the lies you are talking about…
FEB. 28 “The E.P.A.’s regulators were putting people out of jobs by the hundreds of thousands.” (There’s no evidence that the Waters of the United States rule caused severe job losses.) DJT
There are a few thousand more if you want to look them up.
Anonymous prevaricated: “There’s no evidence that the Waters of the United States rule caused severe job losses”
Here ya go, numbskull:
From NY TImes on Sept. 5, 2011 in article “A Debate Arises on Job Creation and Environment” by Motoko RIch and John Broder:
‘“Regulations are put on the books and largely stay there unexamined,” said Michael Greenstone, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “This is part of the reason that these debates about regulations have a Groundhog’s Day quality to them.”
Mr. Greenstone has conducted one of the few studies that actually measure job losses related to environmental rules. In researching the amendments to the Clean Air Act that affected polluting plants from 1972 and 1987, he found that those companies lost almost 600,000 jobs compared with what would have happened without the regulations.’
All regulations cause job losses
Anything that reduces economic efficiency comes at the expense of production and therefore jobs
The waters of the United States rules were an unconstitutional power grab
As the us increases it regulatory burden the rate of increase in standard of living declines
It should not surprise that the rate of growth in Europe has been about half that of the us
Because they more regulations and bigger government
The attempt on trumps life is disgusting, violence has no place in politics, vote, vote, vote, and accept the results.
However, it is kind of interesting that the man that has spewed more hate, insinuated violence against more people, supports the “2nd” amendment crowd with such vigor, was himself the target of violence. Karma.
Does everyone who is pro choice also support crushing the skulls of fetus’s in the 8th month ?
Just because someone supports 2A rights does not mean they support assassination
The problem isn’t the pundits, it’s the 30% of Americans who believe the pundits.
While I’m commenting why do you still proudly maintain that you’re a lifelong democrat? Each day you reveal that they are corrupted, break our laws, lie to Americans and you consistently maintain “I’m a lifelong democrat”, isn’t time you looked to yourself for answers to the problem?
Professor, excellent column.
Well said and spot on.
question….would soul searching by Hitler in 1930’s German have stopped him…no?
Republicans NEED TO RIP power away from Democrats whose EVERY VOTER appears to HATE America!
Every Democrat 100% supports
1) China (Bidens and their cronies have taken Millions from them…along with US Universities by the billions!
2) Murder by Drugs….Democrats push Drugs at every opportunity and have removed a border. 200,000/yr die of drugs and suicide from Democrats hate and pushing drugs. When obama was elected in 2008…this number was like 30,000-50,000
3) The End of Science….as they PUSH that you can change gender…you can’t…your DNA is FIRM
4) Centralize TOTAL power with Massive Companies and Government RULING YOU. FASCISM
5) End of America…Democrats have removed borders while FORCING wars across the WORLD
6) The persecution of Trump by an endless parade of Democrats from fed, state and local Lawless Justice officals….is a CRIME against the USA. It is TREASON and ALL OF THESE people should either be EXECUTED or jailed FOR LIFE!
I consider EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT Voter an ENEMY of the USA.
To historians reading this in the future: Yes this guy is nuts. Yes what he says is bull. Yes he has no capacity for self reflection. Yes there are many who also have these views. Yes we are as confused as you are.
Sammy-Look in the mirror
The post is error only to the extent it says every instead of most
Which items describing democrats do not describe you ?
Please tell us how you do not match that description ?
The democrats desperately need people to say and mean those items do not reflect their values and they do not support a party that supports those values
you still don’t get it.
Democrats are fascists…whose WHOLE world is Government and the money it provides
They are at Civil War with the USA….importing millions of illegals to FORCE massive increases in spending on them…which they SKIM
The GOP’s single focus should be to DEFUND DEMOCRATS
Cut Federal Spending 50%
End Federal Aid to cities, states, non-profits and colleges
TAKE AWAY THEIR Money takes away their POWER!
And gives that POWER back to local citizens.
Also ARREST Criminal Democrats from across government by the 1000’s…including judges, congress, DAs, AGs, DOJ, etc
Excellent post. However, Trump may not have a big blue ox to help, but he does have a big blue ass to defeat.
Having been shot at and missed, I can ascertain Churchill’s view. As for the assassination, I’m not so sure. Crooks was a member of a wide-area shooting club in a region known for producing snipers, hit men and assassins. There are a lot of questions about the security, or lack of it, at the grounds. It would not surprise me if he was recruited to be the trigger man in a plot with ties to Washington.
“As a lifelong Democrat, I have repeatedly asked what we have become in this age of rage. If we embrace groups like Antifa, oppose free speech, and cleanse ballots, we will have little beyond our rage to sustain us.”
Professor Turkey, I must ask, with deep respect, what is holding you back from changing parties? Perhaps at least move to become an independent.
When you can’t change the team….change the team.
Apologies. I meant Turley. Sometimes, Spellcheck is not kind.
We’ll all be better off If Mr. Trump’s near death experience taught him to combine conservative policies with a touch of humility.
sure blame the victim. Humble people don’t TAKE on a FASCIST Government!
If Trump wasn’t a FIGHTING forged in NY…he would have been Destroyed long ago.
Weird you don’t mention say Democrats for fining him $500 Million for paying back a loan…or the 1000’s of crimes they committed. Tell me…WAS ANYONE jailed for the Russian Hoaz?
Were any of the TOP 50 US Intel officials who openly LIED about the Biden LAPTOP of crime Jailed?
FBI 4 years later…still has DONE ZERO…about the 1000’s of CRIMES on that Laptop alone.
Here I can show you http://www.bidenreport.com
guyventnor wrote: Here I can show you http://www.bidenreport.com
I can tell you from personal experience about government contracted out First Amendment censorship that the FBI apparatchiks Bribery Biden placed inside Facebook will throw you in FascistBook jail for 30 days if you DARE to post that link on your FascistBook home page – or even if you dare to share it in a “private” message to any of your FascistBook friends. Bribery Biden’s contracted out censors of First Amendment speech extends to censoring your private messages on FascistBook.
Been there; done that. Twice.
The last time a few months ago when federal prosecutors introduced the Biden Bribery Laptop as evidence against the First Felon Crackhead Son in his trial for being what Bribery Biden and the Soviet Democrats call “gun criminals and gun crime”.
Ken Larsen posted:
We’ll all be better off If Mr. Trump’s near death experience taught him to combine conservative policies with a touch of humility.
I would agree in this respect: I have been dismayed and concerned for years that Trump’s style of speech definitely puts asses in bleacher seats, BUT it also turns off many voters who are independent/undecided. To win votes, you NEED those independent/undecided votes.
To be precise, it isn’t what Trump says, it’s HOW he says it so poorly and fails to maximize the effect of the message to all Americans.
Now, about Trump gaining a touch of humility: who would you suggest Trump look to as a president who incorporated a touch of humility?
Barack Obama, the president of the upraised finger and his lectures to the nation that “this is a teachable moment”? Bill Clinton before Obama?
I agree with you about humility, even if only for better political impact. But the call for “a touch of humility” was never thrown out there to Obama immediately before Trump. Nor at any Soviet Democrat leader.
OAD
Many presidential candidates have a deliberately concocted style
GWB was very well read
He did not talk like it
I believe that was deliberate and practiced
Same with Clinton
And trump
And probably Biden
I believe their speech is deliberately targeted at a specific audience of voters
Trump speaks to blue collar workers
That is transforming the GOP
In both good and bad ways
Regardless it is the future of the GOP
If I were to design my perfect president
It would not be trump
Or anyone else who has run for president in my lifetime
In November we get 5 choices in many states
4 are less desirable than trump