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 enemies of America want Civil War.
It’s their trump card.
But we have an actual Trump card. And not just one.
Dummies!
“350 million hugely diverse people cannot be peacefully governed as one nation.”
Yep, multiculturalism is a poison that will destroy any country.
As in the 1970s, if the Democrats lose due to their Leftism, a faction will become more radical and dangerous. The Democrats though as a party will rethink and recalibrate their political views in the hope of winning. That was the origin of Clinton’s strategy of “triangulation” and a pragmatic focus on the economy.
I think it’s coming. I’ve been preparing for it. I don’t think we have enough time to fix things before conservatives lose power. We see a political separation of people moving to conservative and liberal parts of the country respectively. It won’t be long before we see physical battle lines being drawn. I just hope it happens while I’m still physically able to do something about it.
Almost half of which were not born here or have come here and have no allegiance to the US. They want it to be like the sh_thole they left to come and get freebies.
Freedom to youngsters is tik-tok, betting apps, crappy music, and pro sports. As long as they have those, they are good.
“The democRATs will say “Both sides need to cool the rhetoric.”......But it comes only from the left side.”
Up until the Butler attempt, one could argue that extreme language coming from the DemonRats was nothing but over blown hyperbole. However, now that we have had attempt number three, and the DemonRats continue to sprout the same evil rhetoric, it cannot be viewed as mere speech. Rather it is verbal expression and implementation of a carefully conceived plot to have Trump murdered by somebody who has drunk the Kool Aid. It’s clear that the DemonRats’ collective idea is to cast evil seeds that at least once will ripen and result in a successful assassination.
Indeed, my own view is that Biden probably knew what was going to happen in Butler and approved it in one way or another. About five days afterwards he had a severe breakdown of some sort that required an emergency return to DC. In my view that breakdown was probably caused by Trump not being assassinated in Butler.
In other words, they are a party of “activists”, we are a party of “passivists”.
They’ll burn down cities to push for their causes, we turn the other cheek.
I tend to think we are just waiting instead of talking trash. To paraphrase Yamato on the bombing of Pearl Harbor, “they have made a grave error and awaken the sleeping giant”. Our side has the guns and the willing to work for a living and build things. They don’t, they take and consume. It would destroy this country and make us ripe for a hostile take-over, but it would end worse for the libs, we’d cull them quickly.
My hope as well. I don’t want to be so old I can’t inflict any payback.
What does Israel have on Trump to make him their puppet?
The only time a rat says, “Both sides do it,” is when he gets caught doing it.
There isn’t going to be a civil war in the near future.
We can’t even get a 1 day protest, how are we gonna get a months long protracted conflict?
No. Not going to happen. Apathy is way too rampant.
“Wars are fought by young people and most of them would be on the wrong side.”
This is a good point I didn’t even think of this.
Not only is apathy rampant but also Democrats abort their young. Republicans surrender their children for indoctrination to the government schools.
Democrats own all of the youth!
There will be no new civil war since there is nobody to even fight in it.
Democrats own all of the youth!
There will be no new civil war since there is nobody to even fight in it.
Correct so this is a stupid article. Even the Mormons are no longer "Mormon". Just look at Salt Lake City today. That city is now Democratic.
“I’ve never been quite clear on what these “civil war” advocates are actually advocating we do, specifically.”
It’s not supposed to make sense.
The left obviously wants a new civil war for clear reasons. Conversely though, the voices who are pimping for a new civil war are usually people from within the Woke Right.
Who is this Baron Bodissey? I don’t know. Bet if we put together enough information we would find that this user is on the Woke Right.
When TSHTF none of that will matter.
I think the opposite. Democrats get even more violent if they don’t get their way. The Democrat Party is the party of Satan - compare their positions to the Ten Commandments. 180 degrees separate.
Should be:
Democrats Driving Nation into Civil War
Pedal your anti-Semite trash elsewhere...
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