Saturday’s attempted assassination of President Trump killed one rallygoer, a father of two who died shielding his children from the assassin, and critically wounded two others. President Trump miraculously escaped with a slight wound in one ear, and in the photo of the century, he stood up from under the swarm of secret service agents, literally bloody but unbowed, raised his right hand in a fist, and mouthed, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
Some of Mr. Trump’s partisan critics attacked Mr. Trump’s “violent rhetoric.” Of course, none of them squawked when President Biden said on Monday before the attack that “we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” We do not know, and may never know, whether the murderer perceived that he was simply following an order from his Commander in Chief.
It is time to man up, stop blaming others, and figure out what we ourselves have done or not done that made this attack and the inciting rhetoric that led to it possible. The hard truth is that it is our weakness, not our extremism or our own “violent rhetoric,” that invited this attack.
The regime media from the top down, in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic, on television and on social media, have repeatedly called Mr. Trump a fascist, compared him to Hitler, and called for his elimination from the race by any means necessary.
We know that nothing Mr. Trump did or said, and nothing we, his partisans, have done or said, can be called the true cause of this kind of talk. We know that because the same outlets said the same kinds of things about other Republican leaders, from Thomas Dewey to Mitt Romney.
Democrats talk this way about Republicans because they are not afraid of the consequences of talking that way. The party that banned God from the schoolroom and forbade public worship has no fear of God, who sees and punishes the deceitful, and has no fear of us. They believe, correctly, that they can, without fear of us, delegitimize elections by effectively licensing fraud and intimidation of voters, and that they can turn mobs on synagogue-goers and conservative speakers. Too many Democrats live their lives in media, public “service,” nonprofit or academic echo chambers in which everyone either amens such transgressions or is silenced by fear of violence or corporate HR.
Ignore the hysterics about “violent rhetoric.” Politics is about violence, about the control and deployment of the force of the community for the ends of the community. Free and fair elections, free discussion, and even the right of the people to peaceably assemble come not from rhetorical or actual disarmament. These necessary features of free government come from a balance of terror that produces mutual fear and, thus, mutual respect.
Sadly, in western countries, including the United States, that balance of terror does not exist. MAGA may have guns, but our anti-populist, that is to say anti-democratic rivals, have the secret police, the intelligence services, and, when necessary, Antifa, the stormtroopers of the woke capital, ever ready at the nod of the authorities or the regime media to target peaceful opposition.
We who fear God have to be better than them, but that also means we have to be at least as frightening as them. As Malcolm X said sixty years ago, it is always and everywhere “the ballot or bullet.” It is better to fight it out with violent rhetoric and ballots than with bullets, but that is only possible, Malcolm X explains, as long as every side fears what their rivals could do should they become enemies.
Yes, my friends, we have to fight. We have to fight for the right to speak and to be heard, for the right to rally for our candidates and our beliefs, and for the right to wear a red hat in every corner of this great land.
The only way that we can maintain our right to fight this “campaign” without resorting to actual violence is to frighten our rivals into refraining from violence, even when they know that the media and “authorities” will take their side. In this struggle, there is no substitute for courage, but there is also no substitute for brains about when and how to show fight. Our situation is not yet desperate, and to make sure it never becomes so, we must manifest both menace and discipline.
A catastrophic level of incompetence or malfeasance beyond the imagination of any known drug induced dreamscape. It makes the Afgan Debacle Withdrawal look like it was planned by Napoleon or Rommel. It now appears amazing that they can even run their swamp without drowning themselves. Or else they are masters at disguise and covering their tracks. Either way the final result is the same.
The bullet cannot be indicted. In other countries stupidity is punished no differently than the most craven of intentions. After this incident it should be understood as to why. Accountably always enhances job performance. Had this happened to a Mafia boss how do you think those responsible would be treated?
Furthermore, without the Second Amendment, and the threat of its implementation, why would the rest of the Bill of Rights have any more value than what it currently has. For all practical purposes under this Democratic Administration we have no Bill of Rights
I guess it has become a question of how the principaled fight/compete against the unprincipled without becoming just as corrupt as what we oppose. Historically, conservatives have comforted themselves with retaining the moral high ground while losing in every other sense. We cannot accept this any longer.
Before anyone asks, I really don’t know what this looks in practice. I have lived my life believing that, no matter how much I disagreed with the viewpoints of another, that person had the right to that opinion & to their existence but I am no longer given that tolerance and I am not a passive enough personality to endlessly turn the other cheek. Let’s be honest-- if the current regime could find a pretext, every one of us that posts here regularly would be in a gulag.
What I do believe in my bones is that if we do not collectively find a way to fight harder & more effectively, we are going to lose everything
Oh my goodness, Mr. Kochin came so close to what I was hoping for. Yes, he is absolutely correct that the left does not fear We the People. And yes, he is correct the left does not fear God because they believe they are their own gods. Even in conclusion, Mr. Kochin is mostly accurate that in order for sanity and a general agreement among all Americans that violence and election fraud cannot be tolerated, there must a kind of Mutually Assured Fear.
But where Mr. Kochin misses the point (or perhaps prudently avoids it), is that we have long since passed the point where we could insist upon this parity of fear without the use of violence.
President Trump was nearly assassinated last Saturday because the left (Ruling Class, actually) does not fear reprisal or even consequences. The Ruling Class incarcerates political prisoners (Peter Navarre, Stephen Bannon, grandmothers praying outside abortion clinics, the J6 martyrs) simply because they can and because they know there will be no consequences–probably even after Trump is elected (which is still doubtful). The serial abuse of We the People the past four years–and longer, actually–should have elicited passionate, visceral (perhaps even kinetic) pushback, yet we remain mostly docile and obedient.
Actually, it is somewhat surprising the Ruling Class has not pushed farther given our quiescence in the face of despotism. Although, I suspect that should they win in November, we will finally see the gloves come off and for the first time, the American people will see the monster of tyranny in all its terrifying splendor.
The ruling class will push further when they get around to it. Have you ever wondered why someone else besides you got the speeding ticket when you were also speeding? There are simply not enough of them.