If you flood the media and social media with political hate messages against a candidate who claims he intends to end democracy, install a fascist regime and suppress the rights of women, blacks and gays, it is only natural that events like the second attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump will occur.
It happened again. Trump, who survived a gunshot wound in Butler, Pennsylvania, at a rally in mid-July, was golfing at his West Palm Beach course on Sunday when police arrested a man armed with a Kalashnikov following an assassination attempt on the former president about 300 yards away.
The prisoner is Ryan Wesley Routha 58-year-old man, a supporter of the far-left Marxist Berni Sanders, and obsessed with the war in Ukraine, for which he planned to recruit Afghan soldiers against the Russian invasion. Unlike what happened with the author of the previous attack, who was supposed to be the only American in his twenties with no trace on social networks, in the case of Routh we have many comments on Twitter.
Since his unexpected victory in the 2016 presidential elections, the slogan of establishment It seems clear: Trump cannot govern. From the attempted subversion of the Electoral College that year, through the ridiculous and dismantled “Russia plot” and the infiltration of anti-Trumpists into his own government, to this second attempt and the series of frivolous legal charges, the maneuvers to prevent the New Yorker from returning to the White House and carrying out the announced “retaliation” are too numerous to ignore.
But the most vehement remains an unusually vehement and irresponsible language in the national and international press, which places Trump in the target of more or less unbalanced “lone wolves”, as there are many in a country where there are many more. firearms. than inhabitants.
What has been happening in the United States since Trump appeared on the political scene is less reminiscent of an understandable ideological rivalry between the parties than of Rwanda’s Radio Mille Collines, the channel that encouraged the massacre of Tutsis as if they were cockroaches, promoting a genocide with a million killed with machetes.
“Nothing will stop me, I will never give up,” the former president said in a note made public immediately after the arrest of this new one (one imagines). lone wolf.
The demonization of the opposite leads precisely to these extremes, to pure and simple and perfectly justified violence. Isn’t killing Hitler justified? It’s not sic always tyrannis (This is what to do with tyrants) one of the mottos of democracy?
Trump is not a perfect foreigner from whom we can expect everything, including a declaration or a reduction of freedoms. What the criminal messages of Democratic America seem to neglect is that Trump has governed for four years, and we can judge what he has done and how, and if we have seen anything, it is a peaceful Trump on the international scene and delightfully constitutional and democratic in the internal panorama.
