President Trump’s return to the White House and his populist agenda constitute an existential threat to a Democratic Party so unpopular with its own voters that it is in danger of going the way of the Whigs. Several recent polls have revealed that only about 1 in 3 Democrats are optimistic about the future of their party. In response to this crisis, their leaders have reverted to their longstanding tradition of inciting political violence. James Comey claims he is “nonaligned” politically, yet his now notorious “8647” Instagram post was all too typical of Democrat calls for the President’s assassination.
If the Democrats were at all sincere when they insist that violence has no place in America, they wouldn’t use so much graphic imagery. Former President Biden told donors, a mere five days before Donald Trump was shot in Pennsylvania, “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” Biden later provided a semi-coherent rationale for using those words during an NBC interview, but the irresponsible rhetoric has never stopped. As recently as three weeks ago, for example, the Democratic governor of Illinois issued a thinly veiled call for violent protests which included this admonition: “These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.”
This is perfectly consistent with the rhetoric that has been deployed against Trump by Democrats and “Never-Trumpers” since he entered presidential politics in 2015. In October of that year Rick Wilson, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, appeared on MSNBC and offered this wisdom: “They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.” Even after the first attempt on Trump’s life, former Biden staffer Kate Bedingfield opined on CNN that Democrats should “turn their fire on Donald Trump.” The connection between such imagery and the assassination attempts was not lost on the voters per an NBC poll:
Slightly more than half of respondents, 54%, agreed that “extreme political rhetoric used by some in the media and by political leaders was an important contributor” in the days after a gunman was spotted on the fence line outside Trump’s golf course and arrested after fleeing … While voters have often split along party lines following targeted violence against political figures, Americans are approaching consensus that overheated rhetoric is inspiring the attacks. And they are growing less likely to chalk up incidents to the lone actions of a disturbed attacker.
Nonetheless, despite two assassination attempts on Trump, the Democrats ratcheted up their unhinged claims about the danger he posed to “our democracy” as Election Day approached. His opponent in the presidential race, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, dumped her phony “campaign of joy” during a CNN town hall on October 23, 2024. The New York Times reported, “Kamala Harris called Donald J. Trump a fascist on Wednesday evening, elevating what until recently had been an argument made only in the lower ranks of a Democratic Party that has spent years attacking him as anti-democratic, unfit to serve, and a criminal.”
Meanwhile, most of the corporate media were focused on — wait for it — Trump’s “authoritarian” rhetoric. As one NPR headline put it, “Trump turns to darker rhetoric as voting begins.” This alleged news story begins as follows: “At a pair of weekend speeches, former President Donald Trump continued to escalate the insults, threats, and lies that have become hallmarks of his political campaigns.” Likewise, an AP “news” article titled, “Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of pivotal debate,” described a deeply sinister plot purportedly hatched by Trump to punish his political enemies if elected to a second term:
Trump’s message represents his latest threat to use the office of the presidency to exact retribution if he wins a second term. There is no evidence of the kind of fraud he continues to insist marred the 2020 election; in fact, dozens of courts, Republican state officials and his own administration have said he lost fairly … While Trump’s campaign aides and allies have urged him to keep his focus on Harris and make the election a referendum on issues like inflation and border security, Trump in recent days has veered far off course.
Incitement by Democrats and disgraced FBI Director Comey
If you get your news from reliable outlets, you know this sinister retribution plot never materialized — unless you believe that firing lazy, incompetent bureaucrats and removing the security clearances of Obama and Biden officials with well-documented records of corruption is retribution. Meanwhile death threats against President Trump continue to accumulate. Moreover, multiple members of his Cabinet have been the victims of death threats, bomb threats, and swatting — often before being confirmed by the Senate. This has been incited by Democrat “leaders” such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
All of which brings us back to disgraced FBI Director Jim Comey. No one in the galaxy believes his claim that he didn’t know what “8647” meant. Moreover, as George Parry writes in the American Spectator, “He is about to experience the hell he has put so many other Americans through.” Comey probably believed his Instagram post was a clever way to generate interest in his new book. It’s likely, however, that he will discover that there is such a thing as bad publicity — and inciting the assassination of a President falls into that category. Normalizing political violence is no longer a viable strategy for Democrats or sleazy opportunists.
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