Many of the individuals you will see condemn the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in the coming days will be outing themselves as liars.
Most of them, we’d hope, are not lying with their condemnations. Everyone should agree that such an egregious act of violence, aimed at destabilizing the entire American political system, is heinous and indefensible.
They will, though, be exposing that they’ve been lying for years about what they believe Donald Trump is.
“Threats to democracy” in this country are countered with murderous violence. The United States was founded when our ancestors launched a full-scale war against the British Empire for denying colonists representation. When slaveholders sought to continue dehumanizing an entire race of people, pro-freedom Americans solved that by killing hundreds of thousands of men. When Islamic terrorists flew planes into buildings and killed thousands of Americans, it triggered a decades-long series of bombing campaigns, invasions and proxy wars.
So, if Donald Trump really is a threat to the entire existence of America, of course someone would try to shoot him. Just last week, the influential left-wing magazine “The New Republic” published a cover that portrays Trump as Hitler. Nobody would bat an eye at the suggestion of assassinating Hitler before he committed the Holocaust. In fact, individuals who tried to assassinate Hitler are lionized as courageous heroes.
How did this shooter know he would have access to that roof top with a clear view of Trump. Did he have help, maybe some inside information.