Just a few short days after a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, and after Democratic political leaders and their media accomplices expressed "Horror" at the attempted assassination, urged that the political rhetoric be toned down, and called for "Unity," they are right back at it - calling Trump a danger to democracy.
Eric Levitz, writing in Vox, remarks that the attempted assassination should not cow Trump's critics who rightly call him a threat to democracy.
The New Republic, which featured a cover with Trump as Hitler, says that after being shot at the Pennsylvania rally, "Trump is a bigger threat to American democracy than ever before." David Farris, writing in Slate, says "Trump is still as dangerous as he has ever been." The Left and the Democrats are doubling down on the "Threat to democracy" rhetoric, as if that is all they have.
" In an essay in City Journal, Heather Mac Donald admits to having felt "a sense of dread that Trump would be assassinated, in light of the nonstop, ubiquitous rhetoric against him." Mac Donald believes that calls for toning down the ugly rhetoric "Are unlikely to go far." Many Democrats actually seem to believe that "Trump is the next coming of Hitler." Trump occupied the office of president for four years, and there was nothing he did that was "Fascist," or dictatorial, or that "Threatened democracy," but the Democrats and their media allies have constructed a narrative that they cannot afford to abandon.
Joe Trippi, a Democratic consultant, summarized the heart of Biden's campaign: "The reality is Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, period." Princeton University history professor Eddie Glaude urged Democrats to "Continue to tell the truth about the danger [Trump] presents." "The fact that there was an attempt on his life," Glaude continued, "Does not change the threat Trump poses to American democracy." There will be no unity.
The rhetoric comparing Trump to Hitler, and calling him a dictator and threat to democracy will continue, just as if the assassination attempt never happened.
With the polls showing Trump leading in most of the battleground states, and even threatening to upset Biden in Nevada and Virginia, in the wake of Biden's miserable and, frankly, scary debate performance, characterizing Trump as a threat to democracy may be their only hope - assuming enough voters believe them.
https://spectator.org/toning-down-the-dangerous-rhetoric-didnt-last-long/
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