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The Rhetoric of Republican President Assassination
American Thinker ^ | Ben Voth

Posted on 04/27/2026 6:22:42 AM PDT by lonestar67

Since the assassination of Lincoln, the press and academic culture have worked together to create a sense of moral purpose in killing Republican presidents.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academia; assassination; politicalviolence

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Our intellectual culture is cultivating a mindset of assassination.
1 posted on 04/27/2026 6:22:42 AM PDT by lonestar67
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To: lonestar67

Finally, someone pointing out that only Republicans are assassinated. Kennedy being the exception, but he was also killed by his own party (Johnson wanted the office and to get us into Vietnam and pass the Great Society to lock in their voting base).


2 posted on 04/27/2026 6:34:29 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: lonestar67

The MSM and social media are (((MAJOR))) contributors to this.

Their idea of social responsibility and self censorship / restraint only apply when you have a Democrat president or are dealing with some liberal cause.


3 posted on 04/27/2026 6:35:50 AM PDT by Red6
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To: Resolute Conservative

I think JFK was assassinated by the mafia because his admin turned on the same mafia that got him elected.


4 posted on 04/27/2026 6:36:49 AM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: lonestar67

https://truthsocial.com/@CitizenFreePress/posts/116471778847181460

“This must stop!” Excellent commentary.


5 posted on 04/27/2026 6:38:03 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: lonestar67

Bfl


6 posted on 04/27/2026 6:41:44 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Who is going to stop it?


7 posted on 04/27/2026 6:42:31 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Resolute Conservative
We were already in Vietnam.

And the rest of the stuff JFK would have done as well.

8 posted on 04/27/2026 6:45:32 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“Advisors”. Johnson escalated instead of getting out. I don’t know that Kennedy would have pushed the Great Society. Funny to think that Kennedy would not be a mainstream dim today. He wasn’t radical enough like his brother Teddy.


9 posted on 04/27/2026 6:53:49 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Texas resident

American mobsters lost significant investments when Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, as his regime shut down or nationalized casinos and hotels they controlled. Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante Jr. were among the most affected, having heavily invested in Havana’s gambling and nightlife industry under Batista’s rule.

Meyer Lansky lost an estimated $7 million and saw his Hotel Riviera, a centerpiece of his gambling empire, seized.
Santo Trafficante Jr. lost control of key properties like the Sans Souci and the Capri’s Red Room nightclub.
Other figures such as Dino Cellini and Joe Stassi also remained briefly, hoping to revive operations, but ultimately fled Cuba by late 1959, losing their investments.

Then, along came hapless John Kennedy who pulled the plug on any chance of the mobsters getting their “Cuban Investments” back.


10 posted on 04/27/2026 6:54:21 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Texas resident

Johnson was a vile human and IMO the most corrupted POS ever and I put nothing past him.


11 posted on 04/27/2026 6:56:03 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: lonestar67

And yet if any of them had to endure what our president has had to endure, they would be screaming about the injustice and immorality of it


12 posted on 04/27/2026 6:58:26 AM PDT by Bob434 (NYWAYS)
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To: Resolute Conservative

100% correct


13 posted on 04/27/2026 6:59:39 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: lonestar67

QUESTION: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FOOD FOR THE 2600 PEOPLE WHO WERE AT THE DINNER?


14 posted on 04/27/2026 6:59:57 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Red6

The MSM and social media are (((MAJOR))) contributors to this.

Their idea of social responsibility and self censorship / restraint only apply when you have a Democrat president or are dealing with some liberal cause.


Agree, completely.

They control all of the narative.


15 posted on 04/27/2026 7:06:43 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Kennedy would have moved in whatever direction main stream Ratters moved! Naive JFK worship to think otherwise. I base the opinion on the examples of his brothers RFK went from Roy Cohn\Joe McCarthy acolyte to darling of the left to run against LBJ. Teddy went from antiabortion to proabortion. Yes all the Kennedys had “principles” , “dynamic principles”. Like Groucho Marx said “I have principles. You don’t like these. I have others!”.


16 posted on 04/27/2026 7:06:45 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Resolute Conservative

I hope the president will bring 5his fact to light so that it paints the left as ehat they are, a murderous racist cult. Th4ow this fact in their faces. Let the public come to realize that supporting liberals is supporting hate and evil. Maybe the light will come on for some of th3 more moderate liberals. Tell his audience that the left are so sick, and so u qualifi3d for public office that their only response to the opposition is for them to try to murder the opposi5ion in order to try and sil3nce their message.

It really is evil vs good. The level of evil has really skyrocketted ever since oblama was in orfice and stoking racial hatred and political hatred. The left had been waiting for their catalyst in order to inspire them to break loose and wreak unholy h3ll on the na5ion, and oblama p4ovided that for them. Th3 msm was elwted knowing the carnage that would ensue.

Datan has his claws dug de3p in the democrat party!


17 posted on 04/27/2026 7:09:00 AM PDT by Bob434 (NYWAYS)
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To: Red6

Exactly. They screamed and screamed about “toning down the rhettoric” when one of theirs was attacked, and ledtured everyone about using civil discourse, yet as soon as republicans became targets the left ramped up the ugly evil rhettoric hoping to inspire sick mentslly ill people 5o do something, and th3 msms’s plan is working, sick mentslly ill liberals are so enrwged by what the msm feeds them that theyve mad3 mqny attempts now. No doubt the msm was dissapointed at the failures.

Thankfully God has been wa5ching over pres Trump! Pray h3 continues to do so.


18 posted on 04/27/2026 7:13:33 AM PDT by Bob434 (NYWAYS)
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...academic culture...

ACADEMIC (ak-uh-DEM-ik)- An individual educated beyond his intelligence who, being unable or unwilling to create or provide anything of value to others, pontificates while hiding out in a college, university or think-tank and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.

19 posted on 04/27/2026 7:18:18 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: lonestar67

It makes me sad so many comments here exonerate the radical leftist Lee Harvey Oswald and blame anyone else.

That is how modern day marxists are able to campaign across America.


20 posted on 04/27/2026 7:20:01 AM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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