Posted on 07/13/2024 9:42:31 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
The nation escaped an unspeakable tragedy that would have been profoundly destabilizing for the country by perhaps a few centimeters.
As it is, what happened in Butler, Pa., is godawful enough. A gunman tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump and grazed his ear with a bullet, while killing one rally-goer and seriously injuring others. This was a heinous act of violence and an attack on American democracy.
Trump’s reaction was truly extraordinary and will long be remembered. After Secret Service officers threw themselves on the former president and then picked him up to begin to take him to safety, he insisted on pausing on the stage, with blood streaming down his face, and pumping his fist to the crowd and repeatedly mouthing the word, “fight!”
The video and photographs of the episode will long be symbols of the current political era and of the Trump phenomenon. Trump’s presence of mind and sense of the moment, after having just been nearly killed and perhaps while still in mortal peril, speak to his natural talents and instincts as a politician and populist symbol.
Many of the condemnations of the shooting have included calls for lowering the temperature of our politics. If that is to mean anything, it should include an end to the fevered insistence that a second Trump term would be the equivalent of the Third Reich, which, if taken seriously, justifies any means of resistance up to and including assassination.
Given the collapse of faith in our institutions and the elevated emotions around this event, the authorities must be completely transparent about what transpired at the rally and be absolutely certain that they are putting out only accurate information. The Secret Service officers who jumped on Trump performed ably, but there will inevitably be questions about how, according to early reports, the would-be assassin was able to climb a nearby roof with a rifle undetected by security while bystanders pointed him out.
If the bullet that wounded Trump had traveled a slightly different path, we would have witnessed earlier this evening one of the most horrifying events in American history. It would have deepened the sense of crisis gripping our country and would have had unforeseeable consequences, none of them good. Sometimes the course of history depends on margins just that small.
I have held a grudge against the National Review for eight years, since their terrible "Against Trump" issue in 2016. I do, however, appreciate this editorial
were not a democracy
I appreciate it, but they need to bear some responsibility for not challenging the rhetoric against Trump until this happened.
A representative Republic is a type of democracy. Will people look this up?
Is this the kind of event that kicks the NR in the butt for being such a-holes about Trump? About time people start to see he’s not Hitler reincarnated.
Trumps initial reaction was to stand up to show everyone’s that he’s ok..I swear when he went down I thought he was dead I started crying I could not believe I was seeing what I was seeing but trump being trump he thought only about getting up to show everyone I’m here I’m ok
The Trump hate is over the top and it is time to be treating them seriously. Every death threat on X and elsewhere need to be flagged, tracked down, and prosecuted.
“...nearby roof with a rifle undetected by security while bystanders pointed him out.”
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Bull ****
Theconservativetreehouse.com has a video showing the police sniper targeting the shooter BEFORE the shooter attempts to kill Trump. Then, after the SS lets the shooter take his shots, then and only then does the SS sniper take him out.
This looks like a setup with the SS being in on it. Only taking the shooter out after he had killed Trump.
The woke BS and DEI is pushing the USA into direct democracy territory
>> which, if taken seriously, justifies any means of resistance up to and including assassination.
What kind of brain-dead rationale is that? As the deranged Left takes the falsehoods seriously, the NR idiots just justified more of the same.
The shooter was a traitor. Whoever applauds him is also a traitor.
The problem is that the FBI is in charge and they're all Democrats.
Apparently they won’t nor will they look up synecdoche.
No where is “democracy” found in the;
Declaration of Independance
The US Constitution
The Federalist Papers
We don’t even know anything about the shooter at all right now. I want more information on who he was and his motivation.
One thing is for sure, the Demos have succeeded in demonizing Trump so thoroughly that we should expect weak-minded people to attempt to take him out much as Brutus and Cassius took out Julius Caesar, thinking that they have done the world a favor. So, Joe Biden, Jill the elder abuser, Chuckie the Schumer, Nancy P. the Skelator, Barack the Untouchable, and the rest of the gang, thank you for bringing us to this point. You deserve whatever you get in the future for your perfidy. Understand, I am not advocating anything for or about you, but the court of public opinion and history will judge you harshly. Count on it.
Save the videos and the new FBI under President Trump and revisit this and track down anyone within the statute of limitations.
The secret service failed today and have blood on their hands.
The secret service failed today and have blood on their hands.
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