Assassination Attempt on Trump Has Been the Dems' Goal All Along
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Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is spending a few days recovering from a right gnarly time at the Calgary Stampede.
Some part of me would like to say that the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was "shocking," but it really wasn't. It was awful and depressing, of course, but I can't say that I was shocked.
The Democrats have done everything they could since 2016 to make Saturday happen, dutifully aided and abetted by their flying monkeys in the mainstream media. I use the word unhinged a lot when writing about the Left, not because I have a limited vocabulary, but because it's the most accurate description of the way they have been behaving since Trump was elected.
Matt wrote yesterday that Tucker Carlson had predicted this last year:
“If you begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment and none of them work. What’s next? Graph it out, man. We’re speeding towards assassination, obviously," he said in an interview with comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla.
I had forgotten all about that. As Matt's post details, the MSM hacks were all over Carlson for that, calling it a conspiracy theory.
If there is one thing that we on the Right have learned since the pandemic, it's that "conspiracy theory" is leftist code for "They're correct, but we can't admit that."
The reaction from the Left has been pathetic and predictable. There have been a lot of variations of "Well, he kind of brought this on himself." David Frum vomited up some drivel at The Atlantic, where he tried to draw a line connecting Trump supporters who legally open carry at rallies and the guy who tried to kill Trump.
The New York Times Editorial Board wrote an Opinion piece titled "The Attack On Trump Is Antithetical to America," which is rich coming from a group of people who preside over a stable of columnists who regularly compare Trump to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini while telling everyone that a Trump election will destroy democracy. They keep the Trump hate turned up to 11 at the Times all day, every day.
MSM hacks love reminding everyone that the shooter was a "registered Republican," which doesn't mean a lot. I've gone full tinfoil hat on this one and am wondering if he registered just because he knew how it would play out in the media.
My tinfoil hats have been pretty good to me for the last four years.
Naturally, there has been a lot of speculation about how this will affect the presidential race. Matt writes that some over on the Biden side of the aisle are panicking more than ever:
After the recent turmoil his party went through after the debate, which significantly damaged his candidacy and prompted calls for him to drop out, Democratic strategists who spoke with NBC News on Sunday say that now the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump most certainly was the true end of his hopes of getting reelected.
"We're so beyond f---ed," lamented a longtime Democratic insider, emphasizing that the image of Trump thrusting his fist in the air, blood dramatically smeared across his face, will be an unforgettable image between now and Election Day.
"The presidential contest ended last night," said another veteran Democratic consultant, who spoke with the network anonymously to offer an honest assessment of the party's position in the wake of Saturday night's tragic events, which also resulted in the death of one rally attendee and seriously wounded two others.
While I do think that the assassination attempt opened the eyes of people who don't spend all day paying attention to politics, I can't believe that it locked up the race. Just a few days ago, I was warning against being exuberant right now. That curmudgeonly skepticism is still coursing through my veins.
Again, it's a long time until Election Day and predicting anything in American politics is a bit of a fool's errand.
Democrats and their media lapdogs can continue to pretend that they don't condone violence, but hateful rhetoric about Donald Trump has been their brand for eight years now. Let's not forget the generous assist they have been getting from the Never Trumpers all this time.
We can be grateful that Trump survived while we mourn the tragic death of Corey Comperatore, who died protecting his family.
As for the calls from the Left to tone things down, I won't be holding my breath while waiting for that to happen.
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