It is being reported that, last Thursday on his late night show on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel gave his own speech mocking the White House Correspondence dinner in which he said: “Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” Two days later an assassin tried to rush into the dinner, shooting a Secret Service Agent in the process.
I'm not saying that Kimmel was involved in planning or carrying out the assassination attempt--although I think the possibility should be investigated--but he clearly hoped that someone would do something. In essence, he sent out a request to all the Democrat wind-up toys.
Meanwhile, although the would-be assassin penned a manifesto (or diatribe, if you prefer) on why he hates Trump that echoes mainstream Democrat talking points, prominent Democrats--including Barack Obama--claim we don't know the motive for the attack. Other Democrats are incensed that people have noticed that the gunman was a Democrat. But as Stephen Green writes:
Dems, you have a problem.
"The same week the New York Times published a cozy interview justifying the murder of people whose politics you don’t like, the same week we learned that the Unite the Right Charlottesville rally was funded by the Left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, President Trump survived his third assassination attempt," Batya Ungar-Sargon wrote on Sunday.
"A recent YouGov poll says it all: 25% of very liberal Americans consider political violence justified—compared to 3% of very conservative Americans. Another 17% of liberal Americans say it’s justified, compared to just 6% of conservatives."
The left has worked hard at normalizing political violence — and Allen's murderous intent is the left's new mainstream.
But even while people are talking about Cole Tomas Allen becoming ‘radicalized’, there’s no evidence that he was ideologically radicalized. And it’s important for us to understand this.
Unlike Thomas Crooks, the Butler assassin, Allen wasn’t quoting Mao about power coming from the barrel of a gun. Unlike Austin Tucker Martin, who was shot and killed while breaking into Mar-a-Lago while armed with a shotgun back in March (notably there are so many attempts to kill Trump that they quickly vanish from the media coverage) he didn’t go down a social media conspiracy rabbit hole (Martin was obsessed with conspiracies tying Trump to Epstein.)
Allen and Routh’s views were generally those of mainstream liberal Democrats. They were no more extreme than your average MSNBC viewer. Probably even a smidgen more moderate.
And they were probably no more radical than the average committed Democrat.
The only difference between the two assassins and the rest of their political movement was that they didn’t just buy t-shirts calling for Trump’s murder (Amazon has a Google search result ‘Trump Dead Shirt’ to cash in on this trend) or put up ‘Is He Dead Yet’ signs on their lawns or confine themselves to fulminating on social media… they did something about it.
That doesn’t make them more radical than the average Democrat. Just more serious.
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This is not some grassroots phenomenon but the messaging from the top down of the party and its media apparatus. That’s why Allen’s views are entirely reflective of their rhetoric. He wasn’t a Marxist, a Communist or a Socialist… his views were those of the mainstream of his party. (The amount of distance between the Democrats and the Marxists of course is rapidly shrinking.)
But Allen didn’t try to kill Trump and members of his administration officials in the name of socialized medicine, a command economy, the working class or any affirmative leftist cause.
He did it because he had been brainwashed into believing he was stopping Hitler 2.0.
And thus we come full circle back to Kimmel and others like him urging someone, anyone, to rid him of this turbulent president.
TDS is real.
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