The Trump Deranged are even more Trump deranged after the assassination attempt. Rather than stepping back, looking in the mirror, and reconsidering their outrageous attacks on former President Trump, they are doubling down on the very rhetoric that almost got Trump killed last Saturday. 

First it was The Lincoln Project, with their Trump=Hitler ad just days after the shots that killed and wounded bystanders and almost took President Trump's life. They have made this comparison before, but they re-upped their rhetoric by pushing this video out to their followers on Tuesday. 

Hitler's power wasn't taken, it was given. And once he had control he enacted his horrifying, dictatorial agenda.

The same dynamic is at play with Trump. Only this time, we have the chance to stop him before it's too late. pic.twitter.com/V5yPxOmaOQ

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 18, 2024

Now, George Conway has unveiled his new project: The Anti-Psychotic Political Action Committee, or Anti-Psycho PAC. 

Trump is Hitler. Trump is a psychopathic narcissist who is a danger to all that is good and true and holy. 

It is murderous rhetoric, quite literally. 

I’m pleased to announce the launch of the Anti-Psychopath Political Action Committee.

Because it’s time to start talking about what should be the number one issue in the 2024 presidential election.

Join the conversation at @PsychoPAC24 and at https://t.co/7Jw8lgMa2q. pic.twitter.com/vCL8dayVA8

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 18, 2024

Everybody knows that killing Hitler would be the right thing to do. In fact, that was one of the primary goals of the good guys in World War II. Every time travel fantasy has some version of killing Hitler before he could begin World War II and the Holocaust. 

It's not an abstraction. It is a key part of our moral discourse, which is why we speak of Hitler as the ultimate evil, even more than Stalin, Pol Pot, and Genghis Khan. Nobody idly wonders whether they would go back and assassinate Genghis Khan if they could. 

Similarly, preventing a psychopath from getting into office would, naturally, be a moral imperative. In fact, that is the theme of Stephen King's The Dead Zone, in which the protagonist has a vision of a presidential candidate's psychopathic goal to wipe out the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons. 

The main character tries to assassinate him and, by almost succeeding, averts disaster after humiliating the candidate. 

"We want to level the playing field on the mental states of the two candidates. Both of them are old, both of them misstate words... Here's the real issue, [Trump] is a sociopath."

— @gtconway3d breaks down criteria for Trump being a 'sociopath' pic.twitter.com/5GOXJHeTmA

— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) July 19, 2024

Conway is leaning into these inflammatory ideas and building an entire political action committee around them, and MSNBC is helping him promote them. 

My wife thinks I am going too far with my headline, but I don't think so. No doubt George Conway doesn't literally believe Trump should be assassinated, or at least wouldn't say so aloud. And no doubt he would be outraged by my claim that his PAC makes the case for taking another shot at Trump. 

But, really, isn't he making the case? If Trump really is a psychopath in the vein of Hitler or Hannibal Lecter, wouldn't doing anything to stop him be justified?

Conway was a founder of The Lincoln Project, and his colleague Rick Wilson called for putting a "bullet" into Donald Trump's head. Dan Goldman called for "eliminating" him. 

This is incitement. What else would you call it?

We keep hearing about Trump "inciting" violence, but that is hyperbole. Calling Trump a "psychopath" and building an entire campaign to push that message is incitement. Calling Trump "Hitler" is incitement. 

Calling Biden "Sleepy Joe" is not.