For the second time in nine weeks, former president Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt. In the latest incident, the would-be assassin, a fanatic supporter of Ukraine and bitter critic of Trump, reportedly got within 500 yards of Trump while the presidential candidate was playing golf at his West Palm Beach resort, but failed to get off a shot before the Secret Service took action.

After the July 13 attack on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, when he was shot in the ear and one of his supporters was murdered with two others wounded, the nation was shocked by a presidential candidate's close brush with death. Even many on the Left, including some of his Democratic opponents, at least paid lip service to the notion that this outbreak of political violence ought to lead to a lowering of the volume of harsh partisan rhetoric.

But two months later, with a different and seemingly more viable candidate in Vice President Kamala Harris leading in the polls and with their campaign of demonization of Trump in full swing, liberals seem incapable of even uttering hypocritical rhetoric about national unity.

On the contrary, the reaction to the West Palm Beach attack from Democrats and their liberal cheering section in the media seems fairly uniform. As far as they are concerned, if anyone is to blame for people trying to kill a presidential candidate, it's the victim—not those who have spent the last eight years stoking........

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