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.
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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.”
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That’s their favorite thing to say after an attack against a republican.
These hypocrites then go on spewing their violence inciting rhetoric.
They expect republicans to be “nice” people, but they play low down and dirty, and it’s not by accident.
They used to complain about republicans “Dog Whistling” even when it was some batty kooky crapola, but these people don’t just dog whistle. They call for “maximum warfare”.
Don’t be fooled. Our side tries to be civil but get us going and it will be messy indeed.
The democrats want us dead and they have been very open about it. Most people are not listening but let them try it wholesale and things will change quickly.
I’ve been saying the same thing for the past 15 years and I am now getting old. Looks like I will be really screwed if it takes another 10 years to start.
Thanks for a rational post in a sea of keyboard bravado.
2026, the democrats take over all 3 branches of the government.
1. They do away with the Filibuster in the Senate.
2. Rapidly the pass a bill to increase the Supreme court by 6 members and stack the court and then rapidly do away with the 2nd Amendment and order gun confiscation.
These are things the democrats have run on and have said they would do.
When the gun confiscation starts, so will war, if it even takes that long.
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.
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Republicans Hold the majorities not conservatives.
Not one important issue to conservatives has been passed. No one is in prison. Monies are still being stolen...etc.
The next civil war will be Rwanda and won’t begin with the government. For Pete’s sake our government has ceded ground to leftist antifa fascists for years! Out cities are uninhabitable by decent people. Crime is skyrocketing and the reported stats are lies. You are following political line that will die
Reading the name of the source, I wonder if we can call on the Winged Hussars.
So are you saying that conservatives, independent of the police or military, should just head en masse into cities and start shooting? Because if not...I don't know what you actually mean.
Baloney
No what I am saying is that the next war will be more grassroots in initiation and will most likely be started by radical leftists communist totalitarian.
Actually I believe that the war has already started and conservatives are trying hard not to notice.
RE:
350 million hugely diverse people cannot be peacefully governed as one nation.
Maybe “peacefully” is the key word here.
While I am strongly against both Putin and Xi, I marvel at —
Russia: 5,600 miles across at its longest east-to-west point, covering 11 time zones. The world’s largest country.
China: 56 distinct ethnic groups. 1.4 billion population (declining for four years).
Agree. The Dem leftists demand power whether lawfully, unlawfully, at the ballot box or in the ammo locker rooms.
Our side spends time on lamenting election losses such as NJ and VA.
“But Israel said “Go invade Iran” and Trump handed the Democrats new life on a silver platter...”
And you know this how????
Trump has pledged for years Iran would not have the bomb under his watch.
Just asking, what is your plan for the crazed mullahs having nuclear tipped ICBMs and thinking it is Allah’s will for them to destroy the Great Satan?” Do you think they would be too Christian not to act?
Fighting in Congress to send middle-class income and property taxation cap constitutional amendments to the states would make Congress turn deep red come 2027.
Have. This has been bulding for 90 years. McCarthy was right.
Young Conservatives are more radical after Charlie.
Bfl
You mean 2029
Yep, I meant 2029.
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