After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, PA, there was an outpouring of very primal and vicious rage from all corners of the Left — both on social media, and in the mainstream corporate outlets. For the first time in American history, the near-assassination of a president didn’t bring about a period of national mourning, or condemnations from Hollywood and academia. Instead, the overwhelming sentiment was, in effect, that Donald Trump had it coming. It continued even after their second assassination attempt on Trump, which led the the New York Times to explain that Trump was blameworthy because he had “stirred” anger among the public. Many other publications followed suit.
Obviously, blaming Trump for his own attempted assassination was always demented. But we were supposed to believe that it was acceptable to blame Trump, at least in part, because he’s such a polarizing figure. The Left insisted that they aren’t always this bloodthirsty. They said that they didn’t want to see every single one of their enemies get murdered in public, live on national television. Instead, they said that they just wanted to see Donald Trump get murdered in public, because he’s basically Hitler, and Hitler is a special case. Once Hitler’s out of the way, they said, they’d return to being normal, functioning citizens who don’t want to murder their enemies all the time.
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