Op Ed: Trump’s Almost-Assassination, Violent Rhetoric, and Public Policy

For many years now, Democrat leaders and their sycophants have targeted their political adversaries with an unrelenting deluge of mendacious false contentions and threats. Congressman Goldman has said that Trump “has to be eliminated” while President Biden asserted that Trump was a “threat to this nation” and encouraged others to “Put Trump in a bullseye.”

They have called President Trump a “Russian agent… the next Hitler… a rapist… a racist,” and an “Existential threat to democracy.”  After Senator Schumer publicly threatened Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch by name the attempted assassination of Justice Gorsuch was narrowly avoided. Congressman Scalise, was shot by someone “looking for Republicans.”

Will we again search for a disturbed potential assassin’s “motives” absent consideration of this hateful motivating rhetoric that has steadfastly dehumanized President Trump an others not in lockstep with radical ideology?

Leading Democrats must rediscover rational civility alongside American moral tenets. They must stop:

1. substituting repulsive ad hominin attacks (that predictably ignites disturbed potential assassins) for fair minded public policy analysis;
2. the hateful targeting of their political opposition, and others due to race, sex, or religious views;
3. weaponizing our government against our citizens; and
4. having Americans killed unnecessarily via preventable inner-city violence, or by unscreened violent criminal aliens.

We, those hatefully categorized as “irredeemable deplorables,” not so long ago, are still waiting for the old Democrat party to return to public service.  

Michael D. Breen is a former Counter Terrorism Training supervisor at the US Dept of State, former International Police Trainer/Technical Assistance Provider at the US Dept of Justice, and former adjunct professor at Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT. He is now retired, and resides in New Hampshire.