Political fundraising emails have stopped in the wake of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump. For now, anyway. It won’t last. But how they return will be telling – will they reflect the “new tone” of dialing back the rhetoric of “Trump is worse than Hitler!!” or will they return to the hate-for-cash they have been? To know if we are entering the calm after the storm, let us take a look at the storm just before this calm.
On Saturday afternoon at 3:36, I received an email from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee with the subject line, “On a scale of 1 to 5…” Once opened, it continues, “How worried are you about Trump returning to power?”
If I didn’t know better, I’d say Democrats were trying to stoke fear of Donald Trump in their br. Fear that someone might take it seriously if they didn’t know any better.
It continues, “Despite dozens of felony counts, a track record of complete failure, and claiming he wants to be a ‘dictator’ on ‘day one,’ Donald Trump is going to be the GOP's nominee for president. We've launched an URGENT Live Poll to prove that Democrats are ready to stop Trump's horrendous plans for America, but it's only open until midnight, and we haven't heard from you! Please, Derek, tell us NOW.”
It sure seems to me like Democrats wanted people to believe Donald Trump might bring about the end of life as we know it, or at least the end of the country. What might a mentally unstable BLM/ANTIFA mutant do upon hearing that enough times?
Adam Schiff, just about an hour before the shots rang out, sent a fundraising email declaring, “There’s no way around it — Republicans have built a massive fundraising advantage in the blink of an eye following Trump’s 34 criminal convictions. They are ready to throw our democracy in the dustbin of history to hand him almost totally unchecked power. We are the only thing standing in the way.”
Schiff is running in California and will win easily because he’s a leftist Democrat, so he doesn’t need the money. He just wants it so he can spread it around to other races and try to build up power for himself. He has been constantly stoking fear and hate because it works for him.
Then there was this beauty from the Biden-Harris campaign, signed by “Team Biden-Harris.” Its panic-inducing subject line reads, “We need people across the country to rush their immediate grassroots support.”
It’s telling how they simply can’t ask for support or donations—it always has to be imbued with this unrealistic sense of urgency, like everything will come crashing down if you don’t chip in a couple of bucks for the cause RIGHT NOW!!!
Biden’s email opens, “A lot has happened over the last two weeks. FIRST: Polling showed President Biden and Donald Trump neck and neck. THEN: Far-right billionaires flooded Trump’s campaign with millions and millions of dollars in an effort to outraise us and tip the scales in their direction. NOW: We need folks across the country to rush their immediate grassroots support. We can’t stress this enough: This election is the fight of our lives.”
The fight of our lives?
The morning of the would-be assassination, Kamala Harris sent out an email reading, “Let’s be clear, Derek: It is one of the foundational principles of our system of justice that no one is above the law. That was the case until the United States Supreme Court granted Donald Trump wide-reaching immunity for his actions as president. I know this is a big deal as a former prosecutor and district attorney. In Donald Trump, we have a candidate who has openly said he will be a dictator on day one and that he will weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies. And it is very likely that he could be immune from those kinds of acts. Immune, Derek. We have to take the stakes of this election seriously. The Donald Trump running for office right now is not the same one that we ran against in 2020. He is more unhinged. He is more dangerous. And he has nothing to lose.”
I’m not saying Harris or any of these people were sending a message to the mentally unstable to take matters into their own hands, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t. The result is the same whether they meant to do it or weren’t thinking. After years of whining about what they call “Republicans violent rhetoric” and how “words are violence,” to hear these people try to wash their hands of any responsibility simply cannot be allowed to fly. Especially when you know they’ll be back to their old trick and rhetoric by the end of the week, if not sooner. Fear and hate are all they have.