What Did We Expect

Is anyone actually surprised by this?  After months of heated rhetoric coming from the left, their weaponized Department of Justice implemented lawfare designed to brand Trump a felon and cripple his candidacy, repeatedly accusing him of being not only a threat to democracy but an “existential” threat, an “insurrectionist” and lest we forget, two impeachments to his credit and the whole “Russia collusion” hoax, we reach the culmination of the propaganda campaign with an attempt on his life. Frothy editorializing from media lightweights like Rachel Maddow, Morning Joe, Joy Reid, and the entire cast of The View have been whipping the left into a frenzy.  And with their candidate cognitively on the ropes, we get this. Congratulations. It’s so often that Republicans are painted with the broad brush as being violent, white supremacist, bible-thumping, gun-toting extremists that we tend to forget that assassination attempts in the modern age on Steve Scalise (and indeed all his republican teammates), Ronald Reagan, Brett Kavanaugh and now Donald Trump were all perpetrated by progressive extremists. Hmmm. And indeed, the vast majority of the school shootings have all been brought to you courtesy of the children of the left. So, let’s just put a stop to that spin now. If you really want “sensible gun laws,” then banning Democrats from buying guns appears to be the best policy moving forward. And how do I know the Trump shooter was a Democrat?  Because he missed. And another thing: let’s stop calling this a “shooting at a Trump rally.” This was an assassination attempt. Call it what it is. News reports that Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas had been briefed” shouldn’t convince anyone that the electoral process is safer this morning. One of the mainstream media’s talking heads in the field actually asked a witness if they thought it was an assassination attempt. Seriously. No, I think the shooter was hunting wabbits. Duh. But let the spin begin. Already, the shooter has been identified as a 20-year-old “former registered Republican” using an “AR-type rifle.”  How convenient a deflection. Why would a Republican attempt to assassinate his party’s overwhelmingly popular candidate?  We will likely never know after the Secret Service “neutralized” the threat. And despite a commendable job of whisking the wounded former President off stage, I have questions. We’ve all seen enough sniper movies to know that these event venues should be thoroughly vetted for potential vantage points for a shooter. How exactly did this guy access a rooftop only 450 feet away from the stage, especially after spectators reported seeing a man with a gun? And why didn’t the counter-sniper team engage him before he was able to squeeze off at least three to five shots? It’s not like he popped up and began firing randomly. Even at that relatively short distance, a shot still requires target acquisition. Somebody dropped the ball. But we may never know.  After all, the FBI is “leading the investigation.”  Yeah, those guys. What we do know is that Trump was incredibly lucky to have survived, the incident producing perhaps one of the most iconic images of our time, a bloodied, defiant Trump raising a fist with the American flag behind him. Although future attendance at his trademark rallies may be negatively impacted, once again, an attempt to bring him down may have the opposite effect of increasing his popularity.