Second Attempt On Trump’s Life, Dem Rhetoric And Civil Conflict

ANALYSIS – Are we headed for another civil war? The second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in two months raises the temperature considerably in an already politically overheated America.

How much of it is the fault of Democrats vilifying Trump as an “existential threat to democracy”? And will things only get worse in the coming months?

Those are the big questions we should all be asking.

In my recent Substack piece (part of my new “2^nd Civil War Chronicles” series) I looked into these issues using recent news.

The series on the potential for civil conflict in America, how it might come about, and how we can prevent it, is based on current events.

As I note in my Substack article, Axios reported after the first Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA:

Everything in America has turned political. Everything political turned visceral. And everything visceral turned into the possibility of unspeakable violence like this.

Everyone sees it, feels it, predicts it. Some actively agitate for it on social media and TV. Now, we have it. Again. And again. And again. Intelligence officials privately warn of more to come.

But still the rhetoric continues, even after a second attempt on Trump.

The day right after a crazed radical Democrat tried to kill Trump on his golf course in Palm Beach, former Secretary of State and Democrat nominee for president, Hillary Clinton was already spewing violence-inducing vitriol against Trump.

As I wrote:

Apparently, she didn't get the memo that Democrats were supposed to gaslighting Republicans by blaming Trump rhetoric for his assassination attempt not inciting more herself.

She said Monday during an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow that Donald Trump is a “danger to our country and the world.”

Based on Hillary's thinking, if Trump is a danger to America and the world, why shouldn't someone try to take him out?

Of course, some Republicans, and even Trump himself often use heated rhetoric, especially concerning Harris-Walz's far-left radicalism, but in my view, Democrats and other Trump-haters have uniquely turned this election into an existential battle for democracy.

I add how Newsweek summarized the dangerous rhetoric used by prominent Democrats against Trump and his supporters:

Since Trump's election in 2016, Democrats, including Harris' own campaign, have made a regular habit of calling the leader of the opposition a “threat to our democracy.” Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) menacingly summed up his party's message in a televised interview with former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psakilast November: Trump, he said, “has to be eliminated.” David Plouffe, a senior advisor to the Harris campaign, is on record saying “It is not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not rise again.”

Some prominent Democrats, including President Joe Biden, failed 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and former Missouri senator Claire McCaskill, have compared Trump to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Quoting Newsweek, I add: “Biden has further labeled Trump and his supporters a “threat” to “this nation,' ‘the very soul of this country,' ‘the very foundations of our republic,' and ‘everything America stands for.'”

Where might all this lead? The possibility is ugly.

I noted:

One writer noted, while a civil war erupting from current events may not look like our first civil war, it could look, “something like a combination of the riots that roiled the country in the 1960s, mixed with anti-federal-government violence of the sort that gained ground among militias and sovereign citizen movements in the 1990s, and the mass shootings that have desecrated the 2000s, all mixed together.”

Having witnessed deadly civil strife overseas, I can attest that this is a worrisome proposition. And we should all do what we can to avoid it.

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