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7 of 17. The assassination attempt
If you could go back in time and assassinate Hitler, would you?
Most people would say yes. Hitler was the head of an evil government that triggered a world war and participated in genocide collectively killing tens of millions of people, and so killing Hitler would prevent all that from happening. It would be just.
What about someone who is constantly compared to Hitler by his political enemies? Would it be just to assassinate someone like that?
Everyone knows about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. But from many people's point of view, it was another example of the hatred oozing from the Democrats having real-world consequences. The rightfully elected president in 2016, and nearly elected in 2020, and on track to win 2024, and the rhetoric would make you think he'd gotten the opportunity to run by skinning babies instead of running in the primaries and winning them.
Trump isn't Hitler. He isn't Caesar. He's a relatively moderate political candidate who is mean on twitter sometimes. However, the same week he was shot, some partisans made a video "Skibidi Biden" which tried to tie Trump to Hitler by saying "Trump is using Hitler's language!". Fact check: Trump doesn't use Hitler's language. Hitler speaks German, Trump speaks English. There may be similarities in the rhetoric the two use at times, but I'd like to point out that the same can be said of most political rhetoric. When Justin Trudeau says Canadians have "no culture", Hitler said the same about the Jews. He also said that the unvaccinated shouldn't be allowed to "take up space", which Hitler also said about the Jews. The left in general treated the unvaccinated as "unclean" in a way that appeals to the disgust response in a way that is directly related to Hitler's rhetoric. But today's leftists aren't German national socialists, so perhaps we should calm the rhetoric down.
That rhetoric was perceived as being a direct causal element in the first (and the later) assassination attempts, and it doesn't help the Democrats.
After being shot, while still gushing blood, Trump raised his fist and screamed "Fight! Fight! Fight!" which was great optics, and generated a photo which became iconic of the campaign.
The media response to all this is typical and expected. After expressing rhetoric that led to the assassination attempt for years straight, when Trump said "Fight! Fight! Fight!" the first thing the press did was pooh pooh him for not turning down the political temperature. That's just another example of the broken media. With one hand endorsing assassination because after all Trump is Hitler, and with the other demanding a man still bleeding from the assassination attempt that nearly killed him and did kill one other innocent person act like a buddhist monk who has lost all attachment to the physical world.
If you could go back in time and assassinate Hitler, would you?
Most people would say yes. Hitler was the head of an evil government that triggered a world war and participated in genocide collectively killing tens of millions of people, and so killing Hitler would prevent all that from happening. It would be just.
What about someone who is constantly compared to Hitler by his political enemies? Would it be just to assassinate someone like that?
Everyone knows about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. But from many people's point of view, it was another example of the hatred oozing from the Democrats having real-world consequences. The rightfully elected president in 2016, and nearly elected in 2020, and on track to win 2024, and the rhetoric would make you think he'd gotten the opportunity to run by skinning babies instead of running in the primaries and winning them.
Trump isn't Hitler. He isn't Caesar. He's a relatively moderate political candidate who is mean on twitter sometimes. However, the same week he was shot, some partisans made a video "Skibidi Biden" which tried to tie Trump to Hitler by saying "Trump is using Hitler's language!". Fact check: Trump doesn't use Hitler's language. Hitler speaks German, Trump speaks English. There may be similarities in the rhetoric the two use at times, but I'd like to point out that the same can be said of most political rhetoric. When Justin Trudeau says Canadians have "no culture", Hitler said the same about the Jews. He also said that the unvaccinated shouldn't be allowed to "take up space", which Hitler also said about the Jews. The left in general treated the unvaccinated as "unclean" in a way that appeals to the disgust response in a way that is directly related to Hitler's rhetoric. But today's leftists aren't German national socialists, so perhaps we should calm the rhetoric down.
That rhetoric was perceived as being a direct causal element in the first (and the later) assassination attempts, and it doesn't help the Democrats.
After being shot, while still gushing blood, Trump raised his fist and screamed "Fight! Fight! Fight!" which was great optics, and generated a photo which became iconic of the campaign.
The media response to all this is typical and expected. After expressing rhetoric that led to the assassination attempt for years straight, when Trump said "Fight! Fight! Fight!" the first thing the press did was pooh pooh him for not turning down the political temperature. That's just another example of the broken media. With one hand endorsing assassination because after all Trump is Hitler, and with the other demanding a man still bleeding from the assassination attempt that nearly killed him and did kill one other innocent person act like a buddhist monk who has lost all attachment to the physical world.