“These are people that want to destroy our country.”
With language like that, is it any wonder there have been two “assassination” attempts on the life of Donald Trump? Certainly Trump believes that statements by Kamala Harris have painted a target on his back, a target that apparently made two men who actually voted for him feel he needed to be shot.
So when did Harris say that?
Uh, she didn’t.
So was it her running mate Tim Walz who said it?
Nope, not him.
Then it must have been Joe Biden.
Not him either.
So who said Trump was a person who wants to destroy our country?
Nobody. The highly inflammatory quote was aimed at Harris and Walz and was said by … wait for it … Donald Trump.
I actually knew that, but the piece works better this way. Trump’s strategy is right out of the old Karl Rove playbook. Whatever is your weakness is that you should accuse your opponent of doing.
Trump has used almost every possible type of inflammatory language to attack his opponent. In fact, just about the only thing Trump hasn’t accused Harris of being is someone who was born a man and had a sex-change operation.
His running mate J.D. Vance isn’t much better. He’s the one who made up the slander about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, eating the pets of normal God-fearing white people.
He gave us, of course, the most memorable debate line ever.
“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people who live there.”
Think about this. Has any sitting senator ever crapped all over a city in his own state the way Vance, aka Hillbilli Vanilli, did to Springfield?
If Trump loses this election, analysts will probably say one of the biggest mistakes he made was his choice of a running mate. There may be entire books written about all the ridiculous things Vance said that made things worse for Trump.
But it’s the Democrats who need to tone down their rhetoric.
Otherwise, you never know. There might be an actual assassination attempt, unlike the two — to use a favorite Trump phrase — straight out of Central Casting.