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There Can Be No Unity With The Violent Democrat-Media Industrial Complex
The Federalist ^ | July 15, 2024 | John Daniel Davidson

Posted on 07/15/2024 6:46:40 AM PDT by Heartlander

There Can Be No Unity With The Violent Democrat-Media Industrial Complex

You can’t incessantly use rhetoric designed to incite violence and then call for calm when violence inevitably erupts.

The blood on former President Donald Trump’s face was barely dry before calls to “take down the temperature” and “unite” began rolling in from Democrats and their courtesans in the press.

President Biden issued a statement after the assassination attempt Saturday evening calling for unity, as did Vice President Kamala Harris and scores of other Democrats. Even the clueless and cowardly Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson got in on the unity wave, saying, “We’ve got to turn the rhetoric down, we’ve got to turn the temperature down in this country.”

Sorry, but that’s not going to happen. There can be no unity with the people and institutions who have spent years whipping the left into a violent frenzy over Trump. This goes for Democrats and the corporate media alike.

President Biden has spent the last few years declaring over and over that Trump is a “threat to democracy.” Everyone is outraged about Biden’s recent call with donors when he said it’s “time to put Trump in the bullseye,” but far worse rhetoric from Biden has been commonplace for years. Biden’s infamous Red Wedding speech in Philadelphia, where he declared Trump and MAGA Republics were a threat to democracy, was nearly two years ago. He has maintained that dangerous rhetoric ever since, repeating some version of it nearly every week. On June 28, the president posted on X that Trump is “a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”

It’s not just Biden of course. Democrats and the media have encouraged political violence against Trump for years, with a constant stream of overheated rhetoric designed to provoke riots, terrorist attacks, and assassinations. Now that their rhetoric has led to an actual assassination attempt against Trump, they say they want to cool the rhetoric and call for national unity. I don’t think so. You don’t smack someone in the face with a hammer and then insist everyone needs to calm down.

The corporate media especially has long pushed what Mollie Hemingway back in December called assassination prep: nonstop comparisons of Trump to Hitler, incessant warnings that if Trump isn’t stopped it will mean the end of democracy in America, and mantra-like repetition that a Trump victory in November means the gulags for every leftist identity group. It would sound cartoonish if it weren’t true.

The June issue of The New Republic is devoted to comparing Trump to Hitler, one of the greatest mass murders in human history. It’s full of essays about how grim life will be under Dictator Trump. The editors justified this by saying, “Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, ‘He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.’”

The Atlantic recently titled an entire issue “If Trump Wins,” featuring dozens of articles outlining all the ways Trump will destroy America if he wins a second term. Top of the list is a piece by David Frum on autocracy under Trump, followed by pieces on misogyny, corruption, extremism, and so on. (Frum, not to be outdone by himself, posted an insane rant Sunday morning blaming Trump for his own attempted assassination, declaring that “the gunman and Trump, at their opposite ends of a bullet’s trajectory, are nonetheless joined together as common enemies of law and democracy.”)

This kind of assassination prep has been going on for years. The Russia-collusion hoax was designed in part to paint Trump as the agent of a malign foreign power working to undermine our country. Trump, we were told, was the enemy of the American people and had to be stopped. They never let go of that narrative, and now it’s back in a slightly different form: Trump has to be stopped because this time, he’ll do all the horrible things he didn’t get a chance to last time, plus he’ll be out for revenge.

Democrats are unbothered by this sort of rhetoric. They engage in it so often it has become routine. At a rally last Thursday, Vice President Harris warned that Trump would be a dictator, weaponize the Justice Department against his political opponents, and destroy the Constitution. On Friday, Biden said, “Americans want a president, not a dictator,” and, “I mean this from the bottom of my heart, Trump is a threat to this nation.”

The purpose of such talk was to prepare the ground for an attempt on Trump’s life, and it worked. After all, if you believe a second Trump term will usher in a fascist dictatorship then surely it’s morally justified, arguably even your duty, to do whatever it takes to stop him.

But it’s not just assignation prep rhetoric. Consider a bill recently proposed by the former head of the Jan. 6 Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to strip Trump of Secret Service protection. To most people, that looks like a deliberate attempt to make it as likely as possible that something like Saturday’s attack on Trump’s life would happen — and succeed.

That’s why Democrat calls for unity and calm ring hollow now. They don’t want unity and calm, they want violence. They wanted it in 2020 and they want it today. It doesn’t matter what they say now that violence has come. It matters what they said in the lead-up to it.

After the assassination attempt, Biden feigned outrage, saying, “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” No, it’s not. Democrats are constantly hinting at it and tacitly encouraging it when they aren’t calling for it outright.

So no, there will be no unity and no toning down of anything until Democrats and the media renounce their past violent rhetoric and stop encouraging the worst, most unstable elements in the country to carry out political terrorism.

Until then, the rest of us will understand what Democrats and the media have made clear: They are our enemies, they wish us real harm, and they are prepared to plunge the nation into violence and civil strife before they relinquish power. There’s no unity to be had with such people.


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1 posted on 07/15/2024 6:46:40 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

Unity! Yes, and the pro-lifers and pro-abortion people will join hands and sing Kumbaya as well! There’s no unity between enemies. No unity of good and evil. There is only victory. Let it be for good!


2 posted on 07/15/2024 6:49:31 AM PDT by JudyinCanada (The left is loathsome, beyond anything I could have believed.)
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To: Heartlander

It is somewhat amusing that the calls for lower temperature and unity are happening after they took their shot, to undercut retaliation.

It is also a subtle attack and a mistake to embrace the talk of debating policy and settling those arguments peacefully — BECAUSE THIS ELECTION IS NOT ABOUT POLICY.

It is about eradication of the elites in the Swamp.

It is not about taxes. It is not about spending. It is not about governance. Governance ran up $36T and don’t be foolish enough to think that number is going to decrease even $1 with a Trump Administration. Governance has failed. It didn’t fail because the wrong side was in charge.

There must be upheaval from Swamp drainage. There is no calm debate because that has already failed.


3 posted on 07/15/2024 6:50:26 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Heartlander

I’m not feeling the unity this morning.

And anyone who thinks the democrats are feeling it is completely wrong.

They’re holding back a bit but they’ll be back at it. It’s what they do. They lie, distort and demagogue everything.


4 posted on 07/15/2024 6:51:28 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Heartlander

This headline is absolutely correct.

There is NO coexistence with the satanic left or the lousy moderates. There will be warfare with these sub-humans until the Second Coming.

The only solution is to build a strong party of the religious right and pray for God’s counsel and empowerment. Kick the RINOs into the gutter as they are nothing but accommodators to the left.


5 posted on 07/15/2024 6:56:33 AM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rlush!)
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To: Heartlander

Quotes:

the judge said, Trump’s words were “an implicit call for imminent violence or lawlessness” that is not protected by presidential immunity or the First Amendment.

The D.C. Circuit agreed with the lower court’s finding

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-jan-6-immunity-us-capitol-police-officers-civil-suit-appeals-court/


6 posted on 07/15/2024 7:07:50 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Heartlander
There can be no unity with the people and institutions whos very existence is based on flawed ideologies incompatible with a sane, moral and just society. Impossible.

Don't take the bait President Trump. Crush them!

7 posted on 07/15/2024 7:12:11 AM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: Heartlander

I do not unify with wickedness and evil. Period.


8 posted on 07/15/2024 7:17:41 AM PDT by politicket
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To: Owen

“NOT ABOUT POLICY”

Fighting now in Congress to send a middle-class income and property taxation cap constitutional amendments to the states would add the electors of several deep blue states to Trump’s total and make Congress turn deep red come November.

[perhaps]
Federal income taxation shall be capped as follows, on personal income:
below the average yearly apartment rent in the District of Columbia, 10%,
below the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 22%,
below the average employee compensation of the 100,000 best paid federal full-time civilian employees, 30%,
below the average employee compensation of the 10,000 best paid federal full-time civilian employees, 40%.

Yes, there can be unity!


9 posted on 07/15/2024 7:19:48 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ABStrauss

“Kick the RINOs into the gutter”

Just elect a few more conservatives.

The RINOs will then play ball as traitors can be eliminated one by one if they don’t.

Fear, uncertainty, doubt will create good voting behavior.

The National Democratic Congressional Committee
said these congressional districts
as of early June 2024 (with the following Republican candidates):

AZ-01 David Schweikert
AZ-06 primary July 30th
CA-03 Kevin Kiley
CA-13 John Duarte
CA-22 David G. Valadao
CA-27 Mike Garcia
CA-40 Young Kim
CA-41 Ken Calvert
CA-45 Michelle Steele
CA-47 Scoll Baugh
CO-03 primary June 25
FL-13 Anna Paulina Luna
FL-27 Maria Elvira Salazar (primary August 20)
IA-01 Mariannette Miller-Meeks
IA-03 Zach Nunn
MI-07 primary Aug 6th
MI-10 John James
MT-01 Ryan Zinke
NE-02 Don Bacon
NJ-07 Thomas Kean Jr.
NY-01
NY-03
NY-04
NY-17
NY-19
NY-22
OR-05
PA-01
PA-10
VA-02
WI-01
WI-03

Remember, many of those candidates need funding far more than Trump.


10 posted on 07/15/2024 7:33:21 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Heartlander

Yep, the repubs are cowards or are using the same talking points as democrats. Get a Spine, repubs or get out of the Peoples’ House.


11 posted on 07/15/2024 7:40:46 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: Heartlander
Americans want a president, not a dictator.— Joe Biden

Yeah, Joe, you POS. You're right. And that's why We the People don't want YOU ... and that's why you had to lie, cheat, and steal back in 2020. It's why you're lying, cheating, stealing, and attempting to MURDER now in 2024.

Yes, Joe, MURDER. That's what your follower attempted.

And OBTW, ordering the murder of your political opponent isn't an official duty of the President. No immunity for you!

12 posted on 07/15/2024 7:41:58 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Owen

“Governance ran up $36T and don’t be foolish enough to think that number is going to decrease”

Possible federal law:
The corporate tax rate in percent shall be:
the calculated national debt as of the state of the fiscal year starting immediately prior to the calendar year,
divided by $1 trillion,
rounded down to an integer,
which 10 shall be subtracted from,
capped at no higher than 90.

That would change the corporate tax rate to 26%, and it would likely increase by about 2% per year, 28%, 30%, 32%, 34%,...

There’s probably not one Democrat in Congress that would vote not to enact that.

Wall Street and Greenwich folks need to know that increases in the national debt could be costly to them.


13 posted on 07/15/2024 7:47:26 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Heartlander

[about 25% of the way down the page]

“Race ratings
The following table compares the most recent race ratings from The Cook Political Report, Sabato’s Crystal Ball, and Inside Elections. The following table compares U.S. House race ratings from The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, Decision Desk HQ and The Hill, Inside Elections, and Sabato’s Crystal Ball as of July 2024.”

https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024


14 posted on 07/15/2024 8:10:53 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (***Find out where to put your money to work: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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To: Heartlander

Rather than a policy-free plea for unity, a reasoned recitation of what’s wrong with America and how to make America great again should do the trick. For some useful advice on messaging, he should contact Virginia’s Gov. Youngkin.


15 posted on 07/15/2024 8:43:12 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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