Weekend Open Comments

The Leftist Machine behind the Attempts to Assassinate Donald Trump

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Nor are Sunday’s events merely indicative of the volatile lows that political discourse has reached in the Western world in the 21st century — after all, conservatives firmly believe that the political Left is a threat to essential rights, such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and its machinations are responsible for the slaughter of tens of millions of unborn innocents on the horrifying altar of abortion. Yet Vice President Kamala Harris has not been shot in the side of the head, nobody has poked a rifle through the fence to take aim at President Joe Biden while he golfs — or, what is more likely, while he naps on the beach.

Some have said that Thomas Crooks and Ryan Routh — the two men who have, thus far, attempted to assassinate Donald Trump — have been “radicalized.” This is most certainly true, but it is a far deeper, more complicated, and more sinister affair than political pundits and keyboard commentators may suggest. A 20-year-old student and a 58-year-old construction worker are not convinced to attempt murder because they read or hear or watch a few frightening news reports centered on a politician over a period of weeks, months, or even a few years. Were that the case, everyone who watches Alex Jones or Tucker Carlson would be hunting Washington’s elite, believing them to be brainwashed by demons. No, the foundation was laid years — even generations — prior to motivate everyday civilians to take a shot at the president.

There are three chief institutions which come into play in this ploy, and one which plays a supporting role: the education system, the media, the family, and the government. Over the past 60 years or more, the education system has been responsible for drilling into every child’s head the conclusion that Adolf Hitler was the most evil and inhuman creature to ever roam the face of the planet. Of course, Hitler was evil, and he wreaked war and atrocities upon the world, but he may not even be the most vile, despotic genocidal maniac of his day.

[Comparison to Stalin and Mao Zedong’s death list – much larger, but Hitler is taught as the epitome of evil]

The media’s role, which is rightly noted as incessantly labeling Donald Trump as “Adolf Hitler” and his allies and supporters as “Nazis,” cannot be fulfilled unless the education system first fulfills its own role. In his apocalyptic novel “That Hideous Strength,” C.S. Lewis made the following observation regarding those who read newspapers:

“Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.”

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The author goes on to describe how education, especially “higher education,” is designed to dull thinking skills and provide bots for the ruling class.  Since the cure for this is the family, the family must also be attacked, destroyed, and emasculated so it can’t ensure that their children aren’t placed into a real educational system that will teach them how to think instead of how to absorb and react. Part of this is the mocking of Christianity, which could heal the marital struggles and provide moral yardsticks for behavior.  Sound familiar?

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Enter the media: Donald Trump is painted with a Hitler mustache on magazine covers, he is repeatedly compared to the German autocrat over a period of four, now eight, now 12 years, and every rhetorical stretch is employed, every argumentative gymnastic move put to use, to liken his policies and agenda to those of the Third Reich… [ Never mind that he has no behavioral characteristics of Hitler]

Donald Trump is further labeled a “threat to democracy,” a phrase repeated online by Routh, just a few months prior to pointing an AK-47 at the 45th president. This claim has been amplified and repeated ad infinitum by the left-wing political establishment in government and media. Again, never mind that Donald Trump left office in January 2021, even amidst credible claims of election fraud. Never mind that his policies in office included upholding and respecting the separation of powers, instead of packing or discrediting constitutional courts. Never mind that he was democratically elected in 2016 and not only ran for office again but earned even more votes in 2020. No, he’s literally Hitler, you have to believe us.

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And the media drives this because they are seen as authorities of information, despite all the evidence to the contrary. The unthinking “smart people” swallow the media Pablum and regurgitate on our streets and in our businesses, sometimes with violence.   And then break their arms trying to pat themselves on the back, comforting themselves with the idea that they are better than everyone not like them, and therefore those not on their political side are worthy of mistreatment and disdain. Their actions to mistreat, abuse, or destroy others are justified, for they are the Privileged Ones.   They shall beat us until our morale improves, or until we say there are five lights.

Regarding the “dehumanization” tag: every dictator has identified a “threat” to the people, so they can rally behind a cause and feel righteous as they are manipulated into committing unspeakable acts. Pol Pot did that.  Mao took out the intelligentsia that way.  Hitler killed Jews, Catholics, and the disabled under the banner of building a stronger Germany.  And that’s how abortion is so protected: the unborn human is not a “baby,” but a “fetus”.  I’ve even heard it called a  “parasite in the mother’s body,” a term that makes my skin crawl but makes others feel comfortable enough for it to be legit enough to rip it apart and suction out the pieces, to be sold later to gruesome purchasers for whom souls are useless, but prenatal organs are precious.  If something isn’t human, it’s fair game.  Unless, of course, it’s a puppy or horse or cat or some other animal.  They don’t have to be “human” to be valued.  But a baby is inconvenient, so it’s able to be killed to make someone else not inconvenienced.  Just my two cents’ worth.

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Ultimately, that’s what is behind the assassination attempts against Donald Trump: dehumanization. This machine consisting of the education system, the media, and the government operates on the principle that those who oppose its agenda — even those who simply do not accept it — are unfit to be called human. Again, ironically, this is alarmingly similar to Hitler’s own ideology, to his mythological Aryan ideal: all those who do not fit in are simply declared sub-human and eliminated. The radicalization of would-be assassins — not to mention the unprecedented lawfare campaign targeting Donald Trump — would also seem to fall under the purview of threatening democracy.

Donald Trump not only opposes the ideology of the diabolical elites — unlimited immigration from the third world, the destruction of America’s heritage and history, the economic oppression of every American family working hard to make a home — but is an existential threat to it. He must, therefore, be eliminated. After all, the elites will argue, he’s less than human. He’s a threat to democracy, he’s literally Hitler.