When a political party, its leaders, its spokespersons, its echo chamber in the mainstream media repeat over and over again that Donald Trump is a “threat to democracy,” a “fascist,” a wannabe “dictator,” and compare him to Adolf Hitler, what do they expect their followers will do? Someone attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The shooter — who killed at least one person at the rally and critically wounded two others in addition to wounding former President Trump — was recently identified as a 20-year old man from Pennsylvania, Thomas Matthew Crooks. But if the shooter listened to the Democratic Party’s spokespersons in the Biden campaign, on Capitol Hill, or in the media, he could be forgiven for thinking that by killing Trump he was saving our democracy.
As a sympathetic Vox noted a few weeks ago, “the Democratic Party has a remarkably singular message: Donald Trump is an existential threat to the country.” Democrats.org (the Democratic National Committee) on June 27, 2024, put out a reminder that “Donald ‘Dictator on Day One’ Is an Existential Threat to Our Democracy.”
Democrat lawyer Marc Elias last year wrote that “Donald Trump is plotting to overthrow American democracy.” Elias continued that Trump posed an “existential threat … to democracy,” and he quoted Vice-President Kamala Harris who said: “Years from now, this moment will have passed. And our children and our grandchildren will look in our eyes and ask us: Where were you when the stakes were so high?"
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