Posted on 04/28/2026 8:57:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I’ve been convinced for quite some time that the political polarization of America has passed the point of no return. At this stage there seems to be no political solution to the problem. To be blunt about it: there is no voting our way out of this.
Where political matters are concerned, the hard Left — which seems to occupy a larger and larger portion of the Democrat Party — has all but cornered the market on violent, incendiary rhetoric. If you disagree with them, you should be beaten up and imprisoned. If you oppose the Narrative, you need to be put up against the wall and shot.
Republican responses to the Democrats’ at-your-throat fighting style are generally weak dishwater. The mainstream Right has always been reluctant to play hardball with their progressive adversaries, but at this point regular hardball will no longer suffice. A harder ball is required, one that would lead to a situation that most of us would rather not contemplate. It’s hard to imagine any Republicans being willing to pick up that ball.
As I said above, there is no voting our way out of this.
Daniel Greenfield has posted a useful overview of the situation. Some excerpts are below:
Party of Assassins
The latest Trump assassin wasn’t a radical. He was a Democrat.
by Daniel Greenfield
There was nothing radical about Cole Tomas Allen: the attempted White House Correspondents’ Dinner assassin. Allen’s manifesto reads a lot like that of the previous three-named assassin Ryan Wesley Routh who was stalking President Trump at a golf game.
Apart from the explicit murder plots, there is nothing in Routh’s ‘Dear World’ letter and Allen’s manifesto that you wouldn’t find in the Washington Post, a Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert monologue or a rant by a Democrat member of Congress. Routh was obsessed with Iran and Ukraine, sounding like Thomas Friedman when he complained that Trump had “ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled.”
Allen offered even more generic foreign policy criticisms that seemed plucked from network newscasts and fake news coverage of Trump’s campaign against illegal alien criminals, drug cartels, Islamic terrorists in Iran and the cutoff of funds to USAID, ranting about being (“raped in a detention camp”, “fisherman executed without trial” “schoolkid blown up” or “a child starved”).
Did Allen really care about events in Iran or Latin America? Could he even tell them apart?
There’s a vagueness to the litany that suggests Allen had a weak grip on where these supposed things were even happening and what the connection to it was beyond justifying his attack.
Rather than Marxism, Routh and Allen offered tepid shopworn liberalism as their justification for murder, “U.S presidents must at bare minimum embody the moral fabric that is America and be kind, caring and selfless and always stand for humanity” and “the United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.”
This is the stuff of a Ken Burns op-ed and it shows that both men were more influenced by liberal Trump Derangement Syndrome media products than by Antifa or radical groups.
Allen slurs President Trump as a “pedophile, rapist and traitor”. This line is so commonplace in liberal circles that you can find it all across Bluesky, where the attempted assassin had an account, sold on t-shirts and popping up in op-eds. Social media personalities, talk show hosts and members of Congress have used similar rhetoric to refer to the 47th president.
There’s not much of a political critique. Just a grab bag of lines from MSNBC.
[…]
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.
[…]
The Democrats have become a party of assassins, willing to shoot President Trump, members of the Secret Service and anyone else, and most of all, to shoot America in the head, because they have been brainwashed into believing the rhetoric of their party and their media.
When you believe that the president is Hitler 2.0, then shooting him becomes reasonable.
The fault certainly lies with men like Allen and Routh who let themselves be brainwashed, but it also lies with a party whose officials and media have spent a decade pouring that poisonous rhetoric into the ears of the nation for their own political gain all the while knowing it was a lie.
Now after several assassinations, the killing of Charlie Kirk and numberless incidents of street violence, and murderous attacks on ICE and other federal law enforcement, they have not repented. They formally condemn violence and day after day they make the case to men like Routh and Allen why Trump should be removed from office by any and every means possible.
Their only possible defense is that they don’t expect their followers to take them seriously.
But the record number of assassinations shows that they have created a party of assassins. Those who have created a party of assassins bear the ultimate responsibility for the violence.
A Party of Assassins cannot offer America anything except murder, treason and death.
Read the rest at Front Page Magazine.
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The democRATs will say “Both sides need to cool the rhetoric.”......But it comes only from the left side.
The democRATs will say “Both sides need to cool the rhetoric.”......But it comes only from the left side.
350 million hugely diverse people cannot be peacefully governed as one nation.
Unfortunately CWII is inevitable and going to be the only way out.
The Democrats were on the way out, all we had to do was wait until the 2030, where the Census, more Boomers croaking and the differences in birthrates would have taken care of the Liberals.
But Israel said “Go invade Iran” and Trump handed the Democrats new life on a silver platter
If the Left is repudiated at the polls, the Democrats will cool their incitement.
Agreed -
we one side wants to kill the other, they can’t live together.
Instead of a clean National Divorce, The Left will burn it all down thinking they can make a new Utopia. Useful Idiots always think that way. But they will be consumed by their new Overlords, as always happens.
The D-Rats will hire the Chicoms, and flood the country with immigrant bodies to fight.
The money will flow from all parts of the Globalist Worldview Crooks.
Gonna be a new world after things settle again.
There needs to be a RICO prosecution of the RAT party. Trump should also declare the Democrat Party a terrorist organization . . . that is exactly what they are.
“Unfortunately CWII is inevitable”
We’ve only had one. We’re not up to eleven yet.-Ilhain Omar
100% correct.
“But the record number of assassinations shows that they have created a party of assassins.”
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The Assassin-crat Party.
Nope, he was a COMMUNIST enemy of the United States. We used to execute people like him.
You’re the type of RINO that shows up only around elections to make comments. I only had to go back 4 pages to your comment history and I was already in May of 2025, over a year ago. Thanks for your sprinkling of RINO wisdom of waiting for the Democratic Party to come to their senses and abandon communism.
“”Slouching Towards Civil War””
“”A Party of Assassins cannot offer America anything except murder, treason and death.””
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It’s a party of demon-driven leftists with the ‘by ANY means necessary’ as one of their methods. A party of destruction and devastation, since every where they have ruled and run, they have ruined for decent people..... quite intentionally.
We’re not ‘slouching’ towards another civil war. We’re galloping at full speed now. And the reality is... we’ve already been IN that war for some time now. Our side really needs to catch up.
Wars are fought by young people and most of them would be on the wrong side.
If your assumption is true, then the liberals weren’t really on their way out in the first place. The violent and delusional mullah theocracy should have been dealt with a long time ago.
There’s no way to ‘nice’ your way into support by the indoctrinated left. They are true believers in their own intellectual superiority - as incredibly and pathetically delusional as that is.
Why read the story when the conclusion precedes the argument?
Kinda like a comedian giving the punchline then proceeding to tell the joke.
The anti-American leftist marxist democrats have been engaged in a hot civil war for years now. We’re the cowards.
“Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee, got into a heated exchange with Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ... “
Zeldin dismantled the freakish hag. If Republicans questioning, then voting on SCOTUS nominee Jackson, had been this forceful we might not be stuck with her now. Recall the treatment they gave Thomas and Kavanaugh.
The GOP isn’t doing the American public any favors by refusing to take the gloves off with these amoral, low IQ thugs. Jaw Jaw is always better than War War. WC
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