Incitement to violence – Washington Examiner

The suspect, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, has a checkered criminal past that raises many questions, including how he obtained the SKS rifle he could have used to assassinate the former president and current Republican presidential candidate before being stopped by Secret Service agents.

Yet, regardless of his criminal past, Routh has a record of parroting the Democratic Party's arguments regarding Trump and the alleged threat he poses to the country's democratic system. In a post on X, Routh claimed, regarding the presidential election, “DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose.” He also visited Ukraine after war with Russia broke out in 2022 and reportedly attempted to recruit Afghan citizens to fight for Ukraine.

Since Trump burst onto the political scene in 2015, the mainstream media and the Democratic Party have tried to link him to every slanderous accusation imaginable: the second coming of Adolf Hitler, a fascist threat to democracy, a rapist, a racist, a would-be dictator—the list of breathlessly exaggerated smears directed at the former and possibly future president is endless.

At a certain point, there had to be consequences. There are only so many times you can accuse a prominent political figure of being Hitler and of posing an existential threat to the well-being of the nation and its institutions before an overzealous opponent of that figure takes it upon himself to save the nation, in his eyes, from that evil threat.

It seems that Routh, like many people on both sides of the political spectrum, but especially on the secular left, sees politics as the most important aspect of human existence. Without a political cause to support, his life would have no meaning. And beyond supporting the cause, he has also stated in the past his willingness to die for a political cause, as he stated in the context of his support for Ukraine.

“I AM READY TO FLY TO KRAKOW AND GO TO THE BORDER OF UKRAINE TO VOLUNTEER, FIGHT AND DIE,” he reportedly wrote on X in 2022.

In 2022, a suicidal man allegedly attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, telling police officers he was angry at the judge for overturning the conviction. Roe v. Wade and believed that killing him would give his life meaning. And in 2017, a supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) seriously injured Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA) during a baseball practice.

These crises and the willingness to resort to violence for a political cause are emblematic of a spiritual emptiness that is plaguing a growing segment of the population. When politicians like President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the traditional media inflame the Democratic base by bombarding their political opponents with doom and gloom rhetoric, there will inevitably be people who would rather resort to violence than endure the supposedly oppressive regime that Trump and the Republicans will impose on them.

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If Democratic Party leaders are serious about finding political violence unacceptable and are glad that Trump was unharmed, they should follow the example of Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME), who said earlier this year that he refused to “join a campaign to scare voters with the idea that Trump will end our democratic system.”

Golden correctly recognizes that the stakes of the election have been set so high that if Trump wins, a large part of the Democratic Party will believe that totalitarian fascism has arrived in the United States and that the ballot box is no longer effective. This will inevitably lead to an increase in political violence, and the liberal establishment will have instigated every single case of it.