Democrats and corporate media keep getting away with it. What they’re getting away with is inciting violence -- against Donald Trump, first and foremost. Two assassination attempts didn’t happen in a void. Trump didn’t provoke Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh to try to kill him, despite Lester Holt’s spin. Holt’s broadside is predictable: project blame -- in this case, blame the victim. Democrats and their media watercarriers refuse to accept responsibility for wrongs, even when the proof is hiding in plain sight.

Wrote Buck Sexton, via X, September 16:

Problem the Democrats have run into – again -- is they cannot say “this person is as bad as Hitler” and then in the next breath say “I disavow violence against this person who is as bad as Hitler”

They want the political benefit of false demonization without the blowback of it

Other than spasms of outrage by conservative commentators, what blowback do Democrats and their media allies suffer? Nothing of any real consequence. Sure, they want the “political benefit of false demonization,” but not much stops them from pursuing it, and if that doesn’t work?

Demonization is meant to end Trump, regardless the means. The rhetoric is designed to paint Trump as not merely objectionable, but demonic. Should he recapture the presidency, his enemies say, apocalypse will ensue. Here’s a clip of Democrats speaking up for political violence aimed at the former president. Said an ex-FBI agent on CNN, Routh was “spurred on by much of the political diatribes that are going on these days talking about Trump, equating him to Hitler[.]”

Tarring Trump as Hitler didn’t just start. It’s a charge first made by Hillary Clinton on The View last year. That odd smear has been obediently picked up by others. Per Outkick, the day after the second........

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