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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For years I have been saying that Dems and Reps are in a sandbox and the Republicans show up with their Bibles and Constitutions and the Dems show up with their lawyers and brass knuckles. Who is going to win that fight?
Sadly I agree with you. We have not gotten any good answer as to why we did it. The best I’ve heard is “Trump is finally doing something about Iran, when no one else did!”
Ok... but look at what it’s done to our economy, and like you said, it has tossed the Rats a lifeline where they had NOTHING before. Trump is being advised by idiots, frankly.
And no one give me crap about “Oh you know so much more than they do huh?” My proof is in the results. Economy sucking, Rats winning.
They will INCREASE their violence and incitement.
Victory depends on how much one is wiling to sacrifice. Many of us care more about the future of freedom for those we love than we do about our own lives. I highly doubt that the younger indoctrinated are willing to sacrifice much. Life is worthless without freedom.
Exactly. I have seen this coming for a LONG time, especially after dealing with people in the public school systems and the government. When people thought they were doing fairly well, they were happy to be slaves of the government. Now, most people realize they have been taken for a ride by BOTH the public school systems and the government. The public is not willing to participate any longer.
As a result, many people have tried to vote things differently. The agents of the government have thwarted this by floodiing the nation with new voters and/or cheating in elections. The powers that be are intent on enslaving everyone. Now, they are going to push us toward a civil war in hopes of forcing us to submit. It is going to get very real very soon.
Leading to their irrelevance.
That would be true if the democrats weren’t importing and counting ILLEGALS as if they were citizens, including using them for apportionment of house seats and electoral votes, as well as for votes, legal or otherwise.
Birthrates of American citizens is irrelevant when they import 20+ million of the third world and give them welfare benefits in exchange for fraudulent votes.
Israel and Iran are not the problem - the morons on the left that keep cheating and stealing are the biggest part of it, while those that pretend to be on the right but give the libtards a pass over and over again are a large part of it too.
And last but not least, those that think Iran should have a nuclear weapon and that hate Jews and the people of Israel, our biggest ally in the region, are a part of the problem.
Your bio says you started as a liberal/dem but changed to a conservative. Your comments say otherwise and reflect the typical liberal posing as a conservative. Such people always try to sound conservative but cannot help themselves and must insert a line or comment in their remarks that almost always reveal themselves.
Sorry, the Dem polling was a lock on the 2026 House of Representatives before your trajectory inflection supposition; that meant impeachment 3.0
If they manage to harm the President, there WILL be a civil war and there will be no bag limit on commies.
It will not be like the last civil war.
It will be like Rwanda.
150 million dead.
Leftists predicted it and have been setting it up for 40 years.
An overlooked aspect of the US Civil War was the fight to control the US Senate, while new states were being added. The South, Democrat and pro-slavery had a controlling stake in the senate that they weren’t willing to surrender.
The “business first” opposition of the Whig party, which had become powerful precisely by standing against the profoundly anti-business Democrats, was withering and was finally supplanted by the new, profoundly anti-slavery Republicans, who were doing what their rank-and-file, not just big business interests, wanted.
In other words, it was a very complicated situation. So any comparison with today will be wanting.
Exactly. I have seen this coming for a LONG time, especially after dealing with people in the public school systems and the government. When people thought they were doing fairly well, they were happy to be slaves of the government. Now, most people realize they have been taken for a ride by BOTH the public school systems and the government. The public is not willing to participate any longer.
As a result, many people have tried to vote things differently. The agents of the government have thwarted this by floodiing the nation with new voters and/or cheating in elections. The powers that be are intent on enslaving everyone. Now, they are going to push us toward a civil war in hopes of forcing us to submit. It is going to get very real very soon.
Let’s go Brandon!
It’s all a lie anyhow.
Most of the liberal leadership just use these “useful idiots” to make money or get in power. But they don’t actually believe the BS themselves nor live their lives that way.
Do you see Obama’s kid being gay? Do you see the Obama’s living in a diverse community? Do you see them without an armed security detail? Do you see them trying to reduce their carbon footprint and not flying on private jets? Do you think they voluntarily give more than is absolutely required to the IRS? Do you think their kids went to a public school? Do you think they use a HMO for their health care?
But what do they advocate when it comes to the laws and government policies?
It’s literally all BS.
I’ve been saying that there is no political solution to what ails us since Obama was “elected.” Any nation that could elect an open Communist, black or not, is a nation that is rotting from the inside.
Don’t you need two sides to fight a civil war? All I see is one willing side.
It's especially weird to be calling for a civil war when Republicans have the majority in both houses of Congress, plus the Presidency. Again, exactly what are we supposed to do?
If it ever does come to an 1861-style civil war, it has to come from state leadership, not just ordinary schmoes.
A very good example of a clueless democrat, the congress woman from little somalia referring to world war eleven.
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