After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the multiple assassination attempts on President Trump, and the violent targeting of federal agents in Minnesota, non-leftists in America must accept that leftists intend to do them harm.
After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the multiple assassination attempts on President Trump, and the violent targeting of federal agents in Minnesota, non-leftists in America must accept that leftists intend to do them harm. There are no signs that Democrats want to de-escalate political tensions in the United States. On the contrary, at least since community organizer Barack Obama became president, escalation — including verbal harassment, stalking, physical intimidation, and outright violence — has been a key component of Democrats’ political strategy. Scaring political opponents into silence or subjugation is now standard operating procedure for the Democrat Party.
Elected Republicans have proven useless in protecting non-leftist Americans. They routinely ignore leftist violence in the United States or actually join the Left’s side. Remember when then-senator Mitt Romney marched with Black Lives Matter protesters during 2020’s “summer of love” while Antifa and BLM were burning down cities, looting businesses, and murdering Americans across the country? Remember when then-senator Jeff Flake blamed President Trump’s “rhetoric” for causing a left-wing nut-job from Illinois to try to massacre an entire baseball field of Republican lawmakers (including Flake) in 2017? When elected Republicans are so beaten into submission that they defend the very people who wish them dead, normal Americans cannot look to them for even basic protection.
It would be nice to think that this month’s Minneapolis insurrection against federal law enforcement officers would jolt sleeping American voters awake. Surely Republicans will be able to keep their slim majority in Congress later this year when Democrats are waging war against the U.S. government. Who would vote for the party that attacks police officers? Unfortunately, we’ve seen this show too many times. If there’s one thing that elected Republicans enjoy more than taking money from lobbyists who pay them to betray their own voters, it is finding a way back to being in the minority.
When President Trump beat “Crooked” Hillary Clinton in 2016, he did so by appealing to black, Hispanic, and working-class voters in a way that no Republican had done since Dwight D. Eisenhower. Instead of appreciating how Trump had revolutionized the Republican Party and quickly supporting his agenda, then-speaker of the House Paul Ryan pretended that the Democrats’ Russia Collusion Hoax was real, slow-walked Trump’s plans for a border wall, ignored every other promise Trump had made to voters, practically encouraged sitting Republican lawmakers to retire before the midterms, and promptly retired from office himself after handing Democrats the House in 2018.
After giving Nancy Pelosi the House, Ryan joined Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation Board of Directors, a perch from which Ryan criticized Trump’s re-election campaigns in 2020 and 2024. During all that time, Ryan continued to ignore how substantially Trump had expanded the Republican Party’s appeal to Americans across class and racial heritage and instead regularly accused the president of catering to a small group of white MAGA voters. In truth, Trump received more votes in the 2024 election than any political candidate in American history (aside from puppet Joe Biden’s 2020 election “victory” in which questionable mail-in-ballot procedures conducive to large-scale fraud supposedly gave the Delaware dimwit fifteen million more votes than Democrat demigod Barack Obama).