In the last few hours, up to four people of sound mind have asked me if I thought that the attempt to kill Trump could have been a self-assassination attempt. We’re talking about adult people, educated, with important jobs, who...
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In the last few hours, up to four people of sound mind have asked me if I thought that the attempt to kill Trump could have been a self-assassination attempt. We’re talking about adult people, educated, with important jobs, who — although I wouldn’t put my head on a block either — should be able to pass a drug test without too much trouble. They weren’t even all leftists, they weren’t even all anti-Trump, and they weren’t even joking. There are people out there that believe that Trump is such a moron as to ask a guy to shoot him but try not to kill him too much.
The purely human Trump knows well that he has been very close to death.
It goes without saying that security remains one of the major issues. But it’s impossible to get them to change their minds about what I consider to be the biggest global problem in July 2024: the epidemic of stupidity. These are people we have to live with and it forces us to take a breath, clear our throats, and respond with things such as “no, I don’t think Trump is trying to blow his own head off to win the election. Throughout history, headless presidents have enjoyed very little success in the race to the White House.”
It is obvious that the attack has boosted Trump’s image. Not for nothing. The shooting, I have already written, was not against Trump, it was against his voters, against conservative ideas, and indeed against the entire free and democratic nation as we know it. The growing support for Trump is not the general empathy for an innocent man who almost got killed. We also feel compassion while watching Biden stumbling blindly and that is not the reason one might vote for him. The support for Trump is a result of his heroic reaction fitting in perfectly with his government program, giving him all the credibility that the Democrats have tried to take away from him in recent months.
I don’t care if it’s a minority. I worry that the first thing some people think when they’ve come close to killing the future president of the United States is, “Well, I’m sure it’s all set up by his own team to win the election.” I mean, those people walk the streets, they have kids, they take them to school, they go to work. I don’t know, those people fly airplanes, or handle cases in their lawyers office, or perform open-heart surgery, all the while exuding the worst kind of psychopathy.
The Republican candidate we are seeing after the attack is a renewed man. He has not changed, he has only strengthened his convictions. That is as far as the political Trump is concerned. The purely human Trump knows well that he has been very close to death. That’s why he said at the convention: “And I’ll tell you, I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God.”
Things are not going well for the Democrats. Even the New York Times seems to have taken the smile off Joe Biden’s face. Just this Friday its digital front page went with “Biden Plans to Resume Campaigning as More Democrats Urge Him to Quit.” And they are not being as belligerent with Trump as they have been up until now. Are you aware of what this means? Indeed, everything is changing, everything is happening very quickly and right before our eyes.
Even Mother Jones, always radically anti-Trump, has considerably keyed down its usual bile, limiting themselves to a criticism of there being too many men on stage at the Republican National Convention. “The 2024 RNC was indeed a man’s world,” the author concludes, “one that many asserted would be nothing without women dutifully supporting them.” Coyly feminist lip service. Is that really all the criticism for the politician who until a few days before the attack, for the leftist media, was going to end democracy in the United States?
So I’m left with a bittersweet taste in my mouth. On the one hand, it seems that even the most critical are willing to view Trump differently (too bad someone had to try to kill him first), on the other, I maintain my concern about the epidemic of stupidity, and the lunatics who have asked me with all seriousness if Trump had tried to kill himself to win votes.
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