{"id":2603487,"date":"2026-05-16T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lefts-hate-spewing-rhetoric-is-fanning-the-flames\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:34:30","slug":"the-lefts-hate-spewing-rhetoric-is-fanning-the-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lefts-hate-spewing-rhetoric-is-fanning-the-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s Hate-Spewing Rhetoric Is Fanning the Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fthe-lefts-hate-spewing-rhetoric-is-fanning-the-flames%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=2603487&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>The text is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientific-american-op-ed-claiming-sex-is-binary-is-bad-science\/\" title=\"Sex being binary is bad science, says Scientific American Op...Ed.\">opinion piece arguing<\/a> that political rhetoric targeting Donald Trump-particularly depictions that liken him to Hitler or describe him as a threat to democracy-has been closely tied to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >real-world threats adn attempts<\/a> of violence. It claims that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-disgusting-front-page-story-after-trump-was-shot-says-it-all\/\" title=\"CNN&#039;s Disgusting Front Page Story After ... Was Shot Says It All\">past assassination attempts<\/a> and other near-misses have occurred, and it argues that such attacks will likely continue.<\/p>\n<p>The author also says that prominent Democrats and left-leaning media figures repeatedly use inflammatory language about Trump (including comparisons to fascism\/Hitler), and that progressive celebrities have similarly expressed or implied hostility. The piece cites a 2025 Rutgers-affiliated study, asserting that support for justifying political violence-especially lethal violence-has risen among younger, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/55-of-self-identified-leftists-say-killing-trump-is-justifiable\/\" title=\"55% Of Self...Identified Leftists Say ... Is Justifiable\">highly online<\/a>, left-of-center respondents, including support for killing Trump. It concludes that while exact cause-and-effect can\u2019t be proven, the rising justification of violence and erosion of political civility suggest a harmful influence from this rhetoric, wich the left is said to deny.  <\/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\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Based on common sense and psychological research, the most reliable predictor of future conduct is relevant past behavior. That being so, the progressive script, casting Trump as Hitler, is likely to persist for at least the remainder of his term.<\/p>\n<p>And if such fanning-the-flames animus remains undiminished, the virtual certainty of its continuation will be matched only by the virtual certainty that there will be another attempt on the President\u2019s life, not if, but when.<\/p>\n<p>Apparent to anyone capable of fogging a mirror, there have been three well-known assassination attempts on Donald Trump: in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024; two months later, in West Palm Beach, Florida; and just recently, in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>But less disclosed, since 2016, there have been as many as 17 possible attempts on Trump\u2019s life, far more than any American president or presidential candidate. Culled from the public record, those lesser-known instances include foiled plots, security breaches near Trump events, and arrests of unauthorized individuals carrying weapons in proximity to the president.<\/p>\n<p>The most newsworthy of those under-the-radar threats occurred less than three months ago when an armed suspect attempted entry into Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Yet anyone thinking those potentially catastrophic attempts are purely coincidental, having nothing to do with the leftist obsession to fan the flames of Trump hatred, is either extremely na\u00efve, not paying attention, or believes in Tooth Fairies and Easter Bunnies.<\/p>\n<p>The list of Democrats ginning up their base by hurling verbal grenades at Trump is large and ever-growing. Examples include the primary author of the \u201cTrump is a Russian agent\u201d hoax, Adam Schiff, who recently claimed that the president is \u201cusing a dictator\u2019s playbook\u201d and \u201cmaking the country look like a fascist state.\u201d And reinforcing that absurdity during her presidential campaign, Kamala Harris confirmed that she thinks Trump is a \u201cfascist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, Harris\u2019s self-described \u201cknucklehead\u201d running mate, Tim Walz, recently labeled Trump a \u201cfeeble-minded, trigger-happy president\u201d who plunged the U.S. into war without a threat.<\/p>\n<p>No strangers to those fanning the flames of indoctrinated hate and groupthink division, left-wing newscasters also con their audiences by verbally attacking the president. Joy Reid has repeatedly described Trump as a Hitlerian figure, and echoing that comparison, Rachel Maddow stated, \u201cI have to study Hitler more to understand Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But those divisive and violence-promoting depictions of Trump pale in comparison to judgments authored by progressive celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Trump\u2019s first inauguration, Madonna defiantly said she \u201cthought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.\u201d Comedian Kathy Griffin ghoulishly displayed a decapitated likeness of Trump during a photo shoot. Robert De Niro sophomorically mocked the president as \u201ca pig,\u201d \u201ca punk,\u201d \u201can idiot,\u201d and \u201ca national disaster.\u201d And Bruce Springsteen is playing a \u201cNo Kings\u201d tour.<\/p>\n<p>However, in seeking a stronger connection between woke rhetoric and leftist violence, the strongest link may well be their central focus on depicting Trump as a \u201cthreat to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To that end, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer insisted that Trump would \u201cundermine democracy,\u201d and Harris called the president a \u201cwannabe dictator\u201d who craves \u201cunchecked power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson described Trump as \u201cthe biggest threat to our democracy\u201d in the \u201chistory of our country.\u201d And Walz insisted that \u201cno one has ever been more dangerous to this country than Donald Trump,\u201d who is \u201cfascist to the core.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet, such hyperbolic bluster would mean little unless there was evidence that fanning the flames of discontent incited polarization at least and violence at most. But while it is impossible to establish an exact cause-and-effect relationship, evidence points strongly in the latter direction.<\/p>\n<p>And that is especially so when realizing that some troubled and easily persuadable individuals will, over time, undoubtedly come to believe that killing \u201cHitler\u201d or his followers will result in everlasting notoriety.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, a 2025 Rutgers University-affiliated study found that there has been a sharp rise in public justification for political violence, especially lethal violence, with the strongest support among younger, highly online, easily radicalized, left-of-center respondents.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, 38 percent of all participants said that murdering Trump would be at least somewhat justified. But in concluding that an \u201cassassination culture\u201d is normalizing, the Rutgers study also found that 50 to 56 percent of younger, left-leaning online users supported that deadly calculus aimed directly at the president.<\/p>\n<p>Given the results of that research, the rise of political violence in general, the erosion of affable political discourse, and the number of attempts on the president\u2019s life, leftists predictably deny their priming role in each.<\/p>\n<p>But words matter. And it\u2019s inexcusably na\u00efve or blatantly dishonest for even Jimmy Kimmel not to recognize or even acknowledge that inarguable reality.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><b>The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either d or endorsed by the owners of this website. 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