For the second time in as many months, Donald Trump has survived an assassination attempt. Now that a second gunman has attempted to take Trump s life, the left has dropped any pretense of moderation. Progressives have leaned heavily into the idea that Trump is responsible for the attacks on his own life, doubling down on their rhetorical justifications.
00:05:46.940President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist in 1901.
00:05:51.120In the 1970s, we saw a horrific amount of left-wing terror with over 2,000 bombs planted
00:05:57.540in 1972 alone by radical progressives.
00:06:01.220This normalization of leftist political violence has been all but expunged from the public consciousness,
00:06:09.000and many of the perpetrators have been elevated to prestigious positions inside the ruling elite.
00:06:14.740Bill Ayers, one of the leaders of the radical progressive terror group The Weather Underground,
00:06:19.820became a professor at the University of Chicago and famously a mentor to President Barack Obama.
00:06:25.760The left has always celebrated and elevated its radicals, including terrorists,
00:06:31.660and now it's seeking to return to a climate dominated by political violence.
00:06:36.400In the 1930s, Spain was a country facing incredible political turmoil.
00:06:43.840Several factions existed ranging from communists to liberals, monarchists to fascists.
00:06:50.300These factions coalesced into two distinct coalitions representing the general left and right,
00:06:56.720and the deep cultural divide they represented was defined by incendiary political rhetoric.
00:07:02.400Assassination attempts became a common feature of everyday life.
00:07:07.340The Spanish prime minister and several party leaders were killed,
00:07:11.620which inevitably led to the organization of partisan militias and the declaration of formal hostilities.
00:07:18.780When one political faction decides that the regular use of violence is an acceptable tactic,
00:07:25.540the options of their opponents narrow rather rapidly.
00:07:28.720The left uses its media hegemony and institutional advantage to portray Trump as some kind of agent of division and hate.
00:07:37.480But when the bullets are all flying one direction,
00:07:41.080it becomes very clear which party is responsible for the political violence that is now being regularly deployed.
00:07:47.520If progressives insist on feeding their supporters an endless diet of apocalyptic pornography designed to evoke the most radical responses imaginable,
00:07:59.200some percentage of that audience will take them seriously.
00:08:04.320The left is so self-righteous in their convictions and so secure in their own power
00:08:10.360that they truly believe they can freely encourage multiple assassination attempts on the opposition candidate without any consequence.
00:08:20.240The ground that Democratic politicians and their media allies are treading on is incredibly dangerous.
00:08:28.100This kind of escalation is a disastrous game that no one wins.
00:08:33.520If there's any cooler heads remaining on the political left,
00:08:38.140they must put an end to their party's embrace of political violence.
00:08:42.020The path that they're driving down at full speed only has one horrible result,
00:08:48.460and no one who cares for this country would wish to arrive at that destination.