MILWAUKEE—America came within a quarter inch of a national funeral on Saturday. If assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ bullet had not grazed former President Donald J. Trump’s right ear but instead struck a pencil’s width nearer his skull, this week’s Republican National Convention here would be a four-day memorial, if that. Rather than working on his acceptance speech right now, Trump would by lying in state.
But with all the luck in the world, he survived. America’s toughest man, Donald J. Tungsten, stood up moments after being hit, pumped his fists defiantly, and reassured his nation that he was alive and as resilient as ever. As he now says, he is “grazed but not dazed.”
Dramatic as it was, this is a scene worth not repeating. As of this writing, it is unclear exactly why Crooks fired a rifle at Trump, killed Corey Comperatore, 57, and wounded David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74.
Crooks was a registered Republican and a Democrat donor. Time will reveal if Crooks is indeed a first: a bipartisan assassin that neither side can weaponize against the other.
However this mystery unravels, it surely did not help matters, that Crooks—like every other American—heard the Democrat Left chant relentlessly that Trump equals Adolf Hitler.
This is sick, twisted, absurd, baseless, and potentially bloody.
Anyone who has imagined piloting a time machine back to the 1920s or ’30s knows what to do if Hitler pops up:
Kill Hitler!
So, if Trump equals Hitler, it’s no shock that someone would decide that “it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” as President Joe Biden told donors last week. He now calls that remark “a mistake.”
Oops.
If reelected, Trump will cut taxes more than Democrats like. He will increase domestic energy more than the Left wants. He will stitch shut the southern border that they have ripped open. And he will kill race- and gender-obsession programs that Democrats caress like adult toys.
Here are a few things that Trump will not do: Throw journalists behind barbed wire. Toss Democrats into gas chambers. Cremate teachers union leaders. Invade Canada and Mexico to build a greater American Reich.
Will Donald J. Trump serve as a bold, conservative, patriotic Republican president? Yes.
Will he rule as a Nazi dictator? No.
The Left needs to abandon its venomous führer fetish or at least fiddle with it beneath the covers at night. It has no place in the public arena. Before anyone else gets shot, for God’s sake, Democrats, give it a rest!
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