You always hear it after a bear or lion eats a person – they say they have to kill the animal because it now has a taste for humans and won’t stop. This always struck me as odd, even funny, as though we humans are so delicious that one taste of us is so euphoric that they couldn’t possibly go back to salmon, elk or whatever.
That is, of course, not really the reason the animals have changed, the story goes. It’s that the fear of humans – their desire to avoid us because we’re strange to them – is gone, and now they will associate us with food. Whether that’s true or not, I have no idea, though I find it difficult to think one taste would alter everything they’ve instinctively done their whole lives. The concept, however, is something that does ring true, and it is going to happen to Democrats if they manage to finally assassinate Donald Trump.
Political violence is common around the world and throughout history. It has taken a concerted effort in the modern age to tamp it down to where it is now: rare, relatively speaking.
It is still common in the Third World, as we see all the time in the Middle East, South and Central America, and parts of Asia and Africa. But in the First World, we don’t suffer from it like the rest of the world does…mostly.
In recent years, the progressive left – after having purged itself of any sense of moderates (Remember “Blue Dog Democrats” who were concerned about government spending? When was the last time you heard a Democrat speak about massive spending in anything other than a cynical way?) – has embraced political violence as a means of motivation for their militant enforcement wing. Rather than distance themselves from the destructive, violent left, the Democratic Party became their masters.
Starting with violence against police and private property in the Occupy Wall Street movement and their excusing sexual violence against their own people at those same encampments across the country, the Democratic Party has run toward violent thugs willing to throw Molotov Cocktails at civilized society.
At first, their violence was ignored. Then it was excused and watered down – had you ever heard of a “mostly peaceful” riot before Democrats needed to mislead the public on how entire segments of cities were being destroyed?
Now, the violence of Democratic Party Brownshirts is simply a matter of fact and barely reported. If you don’t watch Fox News or go to conservative news websites, you’d likely be unaware of what was happening on liberal college campuses across the country since Hamas attacked Israel, and you’d never know it’s still happening. It’s just a fact of life now, an entrenched reality unworthy of attention.
It took only a very short time to normalize the violence of the left, and there is no reason to think they are done with it.
When a progressive Democratic Party activist and devout Rachel Maddow fan tried to assassinate as many Republicans as possible on a baseball field in Virginia because the cancer that is MSNBC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast Xfinity, by the way, so if you’re using any of their services you are paying for your own demise) told him the GOP’s health care plan would kill 10,000 every year, the story became a yawner within days. In fact, the leftist corporate media stopped covering it as the stop story before Majority Whip Steve Scalise was off life support.
One of their own trying to murder people isn’t the image the party of “tolerance” wants voters to have.
The first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life was as large of a news story as it was only because there was video – if it bleeds, it leads. Joe Biden suspended his campaign as a result of the shooting…for a couple of days. But the “Trump is Hitler and a threat to democracy” implying he must be stopped by any means necessary from MSNBC and other Democrats only paused long enough to angrily swallow the fact that their teammate had missed.
After they tried again, there was no such pause by the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign. In fact, Democrats sent me at least 19 fundraising emails the afternoon of the attempted assassination, and “Trump is a threat to your life and everything you hold dear” rhetoric never even slowed.
From one assassination attempt to another, Democrats have shifted from “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims” to “Why the hell can’t anyone aim or stay hidden long enough to get the job done?”
If you think they’re done, you haven’t been paying attention. There is no bottom for them to hit, they simply want Donald Trump dead because it’s much easier than beating him, especially when their candidates are so horrible.
But if you think they’ll stop with Trump, you’re crazy. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has already been called Hitler by these same people, has is JD Vance. Once they get a taste for blood and become comfortable not only with the violence, but with people knowing they’ve inspired and benefitted from it, it will only become more common. They may not get around to you quickly – prioritizing higher profile targets first – but they will get around to you for the “sin” of thinking wrong.
Sound crazy? Didn’t everything I’ve outlined above and all we’ve lived through the past few years, sound just as crazy, if not crazier just decade ago?
Once people become numb to the concept of violence and blood you get a hell of a lot more of both. Normalizing it, then embracing violence, is yet another reason why the Democratic Party needs to not only lose in November, they need to be destroyed. They need to be shut out and shunned, unless and until some sense of decency and normality returns to them, which seems impossible at this point.