Carol Platt Liebau: Beyond the Pale

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

There’s now been a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump. So: He’s survived more assassination attempts than his opponent has national media interviews. 

We know what the press would say had—God forbid—Kamala Harris faced assassination twice. When there’s violence toward the left, the right’s rhetoric is blamed. But when it comes to Donald Trump, leftist politicians and the media take no responsibility for having created what they love to call “a climate of hate”.

In fact, the day of the attempt, NBC’s Lester Holt appeared to blame it on Trump’s own “fierce rhetoric”—so Trump, essentially, had it coming.

But both assassination attempts have come after multiple journalists and politicians including Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have repeatedly called Trump a danger, “a dictator” and “a threat to democracy.”

Democrats unhinged denunciations of Trump have long been beyond the pale.

They need to stop.

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