{"id":2302635,"date":"2024-07-20T16:42:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T20:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-continue-eliminationist-rhetoric-after-trump-shooting\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T20:43:50","slug":"leftists-persist-with-violent-rhetoric-following-trump-shooting-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-persist-with-violent-rhetoric-following-trump-shooting-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists persist with violent rhetoric following Trump shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftists-persist-with-violent-rhetoric-following-trump-shooting-69%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2302635&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n<p>    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button><\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<p><span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tone-deaf \u200dleftists are\u200c back to encouraging the elimination of their political opponents just days after the assassination attempt against\u200b former President Donald Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a would-be\u200d assassin shot Trump, \u200cwounded two\u2062 attendees, and killed another in Butler, Penn., on July \u206213, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-comms-team-gets-a-pass-where-trump-administration-would-have-had-a-scandal\/\" title=\"Biden Comms Team Gets A Pass Where Trump Administration Would Have Had A Scandal\">left-wing media<\/a> were quick to label\u2063 it an &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/13\/early-media-reports-call-trump-bleeding-after-he-was-shot-an-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">incident<\/a>,&#8221; with some initially describing\u200c the shooting as &ldquo;popping noises.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the truth was \u2062undeniable, leftists were quick to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/politics\/100000009576871\/trump-shooting-assassination-attempt.html\">denounce<\/a> political\u200c violence &mdash; backtracking on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/14\/democrats-now-decrying-assassination-attempt-spent-8-years-fanning-flames-of-hatred-for-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eight\u200d years of rhetoric<\/a> \u200ccomparing Trump to Adolf Hitler and comparing his\u200b presidency to 1930s fascist\u200b Germany. The New Republic&rsquo;s June edition \u200bwas even called\u200b &ldquo;American Fascism,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/magazine\/june-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">featuring<\/a> an illustration of\u200c Trump as Hitler.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Leftists&rsquo; concern about\u2064 &ldquo;political violence&rdquo; did\u200c not \u2063last long. Less than a week \u200cafter the attempt on Trump&rsquo;s life, leftists are back to \u200ctheir old \u2064habits of trying to tie \u200cTrump to fascism.<\/p>\n<h4>Fearmongering<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p>Sen. Martin Heinrich, \u200bD-N.M., called on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 election because Trump \u200bposes an &ldquo;existential danger&rdquo; &ndash; apparently \u2062unlike an assassination attempt on a former president.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The return of \u2062Donald \u2062Trump to the White House poses an existential danger to\u200d our democracy,&rdquo; Heinrich said today, according\u200d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/3rd-democrat-senator-calls-biden-step-aside-pressure-accelerates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News<\/a>. &ldquo;We\u2062 must defeat him in November, \u200band we need a candidate who \u200dcan \u200ddo that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Federalist&rsquo;s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzhemingway\/status\/1814344501747433784?s=12&amp;t=RABm2Gz68BHEGRR9ZartiA\">responded<\/a> to the comment on X, calling \u2063the rhetoric &ldquo;incendiary.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It remains horrific to see this type\u200b of incendiary\u200d and hateful\u2064 rhetoric from Democrats days after \u2064the assassination attempt on Donald Trump,&rdquo; Hemingway\u2064 said. &ldquo;Wise people \u200dshould tell them to stop using eliminationist rhetoric against their \u2062political opponents.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But Heinrich wasn&rsquo;t\u200c the only one who\u200b felt the need to employ &ldquo;eliminationist rhetoric&rdquo; to attack Trump.<\/p>\n<p>After the\u2062 attempt on Trump&rsquo;s life, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez \u2064posted\u2063 on X that &ldquo;there is \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1812294071261487603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no place<\/a> for political violence&rdquo; and\u200c that she\u200c wished Trump a &ldquo;speedy\u200c recovery.&rdquo; Then, her very next post compared a second Trump presidency to &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1812638396830876160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fascism<\/a>,&#8221; telling Democratic \u200cleaders to resist or resign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re a\u200b &lsquo;senior Democrat&rsquo; that feels this way, you should absolutely\u200c retire and make space\u200c for true leadership that \u2064refuses to resign themselves to fascism,&rdquo; Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1812638396830876160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SiriusXM host \u200dDean Obeidallah posted\u2062 a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeanObeidallah\/status\/1812924512989815114\">video<\/a> on X featuring attendees \u2062at the Republican National\u200b Convention chanting &ldquo;Fight, fight, fight.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Bone-chilling to see at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RNCConvention?src=hashtag_click\">#RNCConvention<\/a> people chanting &lsquo;fight&rsquo; in unison with one arm punching in the\u2063 air,&rdquo;\u200c Obeidallah wrote. \u2063&ldquo;Instantly conjures up rallies from 1930s Germany.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The chant was a\u200b reference to \u200dTrump standing up and yelling &ldquo;fight&rdquo; after being \u2062shot in the \u200bear.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/political-party\/lincoln-project\/\">left-wing<\/a> group \u2062that \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolnproject.us\/\">claims<\/a> \u2064to be Republican, has compared \u2063Trump to \u2062Hitler multiple\u2064 times since\u2062 the assassination attempt.<\/p>\n<p>The evening of the attempted assassination, the group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1812259181723865380\">posted<\/a> on X that \u2064&ldquo;political violence has no place in American life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But just four\u2063 days later, \u2064The Lincoln\u2062 Project posted a video comparing footage of Trump to \u2062footage\u200b of Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hitler&rsquo;s power wasn&#8217;t taken, it was \u200cgiven. And once\u2064 he had control he enacted \u200chis horrifying, dictatorial agenda,&rdquo; the group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1813544184386654675\">posted<\/a> July 17. &ldquo;The same \u200bdynamic is at play with Trump.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Hitler&#8217;s power wasn&#8217;t taken, \u200cit was given. \u2064And once he had \u2064control he enacted his horrifying,\u2064 dictatorial agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The same dynamic is at play with Trump. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dch4tuizcE\">pic.twitter.com\/Dch4tuizcE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1813544184386654675?ref_src=tw\">July <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tone-deaf leftists are back to encouraging elimination of their political opponents just days after the assassination <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/13\/trump-wounded-after-gunshots-ring-out-at-pa-rally-defiantly-pumps-fist-after-apparent-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attempt<\/a> against former President Donald Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a would-be assassin shot Trump, wounded two attendees, and killed another in Butler, Penn., on July 13, left-wing media were quick to label it an &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/13\/early-media-reports-call-trump-bleeding-after-he-was-shot-an-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">incident<\/a>,&rdquo; with some initially describing the shooting as &ldquo;popping noises.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the truth was undeniable, leftists were quick to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/politics\/100000009576871\/trump-shooting-assassination-attempt.html\">denounce<\/a> political violence &mdash; backtracking on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/14\/democrats-now-decrying-assassination-attempt-spent-8-years-fanning-flames-of-hatred-for-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eight years of rhetoric<\/a> comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler and comparing his presidency to 1930s fascist Germany. The New Republic&rsquo;s June edition was even called &ldquo;American Fascism,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/magazine\/june-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">featuring<\/a> an illustration of Trump as Hitler.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Leftists&rsquo; concern about &ldquo;political violence&rdquo; did not last long. Less than a week after the attempt on Trump&rsquo;s life, leftists are back to their old habits of trying to tie Trump to fascism.<\/p>\n<h4>Fearmongering<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p>Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., called on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 election because Trump poses an &ldquo;existential danger&rdquo; &ndash; apparently unlike an assassination attempt on a former president.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The return of Donald Trump to the White House poses an existential danger to our democracy,&rdquo; Heinrich said today, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/3rd-democrat-senator-calls-biden-step-aside-pressure-accelerates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News<\/a>. &ldquo;We must defeat him in November, and we need a candidate who can do that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Federalist&rsquo;s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzhemingway\/status\/1814344501747433784?s=12&amp;t=RABm2Gz68BHEGRR9ZartiA\">responded<\/a> to the comment on X, calling the rhetoric &ldquo;incendiary.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It remains horrific to see this type of incendiary and hateful rhetoric from Democrats days after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump,&rdquo; Hemingway said. &ldquo;Wise people should tell them to stop using eliminationist rhetoric against their political opponents.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But Heinrich wasn&rsquo;t the only one who felt the need to employ &ldquo;eliminationist rhetoric&rdquo; to attack Trump.<\/p>\n<p>After the attempt on Trump&rsquo;s life, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted on X that &ldquo;there is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1812294071261487603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no place<\/a> for political violence&rdquo; and that she wished Trump a &ldquo;speedy recovery.&rdquo; Then, her very next post compared a second Trump presidency to &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1812638396830876160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fascism<\/a>,&rdquo; telling Democratic leaders to resist or resign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re a &lsquo;senior Democrat&rsquo; that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism,&rdquo; Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1812638396830876160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeanObeidallah\/status\/1812924512989815114\">video<\/a> on X featuring attendees at the Republican National Convention chanting &ldquo;Fight, fight, fight.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Bone chilling to see at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RNCConvention?src=hashtag_click\">#RNCConvention<\/a> people chanting &lsquo;fight&rsquo; in unison with one arm punching in the air,&rdquo; Obeidallah wrote. &ldquo;Instantly conjures up rallies from 1930s Germany.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The chant was a reference to Trump standing up and yelling &ldquo;fight&rdquo; after being shot in the ear.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/political-party\/lincoln-project\/\">left-wing<\/a> group that <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolnproject.us\/\">claims<\/a> to be Republican, has compared Trump to Hitler multiple times since the assassination attempt.<\/p>\n<p>The evening of the attempted assassination, the group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1812259181723865380\">posted<\/a> on X that &ldquo;political violence has no place in American life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But just four days later, The Lincoln Project posted a video comparing footage of Trump to footage of Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hitler&rsquo;s power wasn&rsquo;t taken, it was given. And once he had control he enacted his horrifying, dictatorial agenda,&rdquo; the group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1813544184386654675\">posted<\/a> July 17. &ldquo;The same dynamic is at play with Trump.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Hitler&#8217;s power wasn&#8217;t taken, it was given. And once he had control he enacted his horrifying, dictatorial agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The same dynamic is at play with Trump. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dch4tuizcE\">pic.twitter.com\/Dch4tuizcE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1813544184386654675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Lincoln Project <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1814086108042723621\">called<\/a> Trump a &ldquo;living affront to the 10 Commandments&rdquo; on July 18.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next day, the group posted a video from the RNC featuring the same chant that seems to have terrified Obeidallah.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t have to go back to Germany 100 years ago,&rdquo; The Lincoln Project <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1814269085619827052\">posted<\/a>. &ldquo;Just tune into the 2024 RNC.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You don&#8217;t have to go back to Germany 100 years ago. Just tune into the 2024 RNC. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dv1g0Jjfdc\">pic.twitter.com\/Dv1g0Jjfdc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1814269085619827052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h4>Implications<\/h4>\n<p>This situation leaves the left in a conundrum.<\/p>\n<p>Their denouncement of the assassination attempt and of &ldquo;political violence&rdquo; suggests that they never really believed Trump is comparable to Hitler, since no one would denounce trying to assassinate Hitler. On the other hand, if they really do believe Trump is a new Hitler and an existential threat to America, their denouncement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-persist-with-violent-rhetoric-following-trump-shooting\/\" title=\"Leftists persist with violent rhetoric following Trump shooting\">violence rings hollow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neither possibility is encouraging. But leftists&rsquo; reversion to Hitler and fascism comparisons less than a week after the shooting is telling.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Logan Washburn is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-clark-county-keeps-commercial-addresses-on-voter-rolls\/\" title=\"Lawsuit: Clark County Keeps Commercial Addresses On Voter Rolls\">staff writer covering election integrity<\/a>. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo&#8217;s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is originally from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing individuals are once again advocating for the elimination of their political opponents shortly after an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Despite initially downplaying the incident, leftists quickly denounced political violence. However, their rhetoric quickly reverted back to comparing Trump to Hitler and fascism. This inconsistency raises questions about their true beliefs and motives. The return to Hitler comparisons just days after the shooting is concerning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":2302636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trump.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5965,14424,4300,3634,35626],"class_list":["post-2302635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-leftists","tag-persist","tag-shooting","tag-trump","tag-violent-rhetoric"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trump.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}