A recent survey by Rasmussen, published by the Napolitan Institute, found an outlandish percentage of Democrat respondents would very much approve of, or at least shrug their shoulders at, a successful Trump assassination.
Matt Margolis covered this for PJ Media yesterday.
The essential findings, via Napolitan Institute (emphasis added):
The desensitization of some Americans following the second assassination attempt of former President Trump is alarming...
That figure includes 28% of Democrats who say that America would have been better off if Trump had been assassinated. Another 24% of Democrats were not sure. …
Despite two assassination attempts in two months, just over half of all Democrats (51%) don’t see a need to increase Trump’s security detail.
This is obviously a very stupid and reckless set of opinions to have — even for a Democrat who actively despises Trump and wishes him ill but cherishes his own life.
A successful killing would invariably, no matter what contingencies are considered, produce widescale mass political violence, economic calamity, and, in all likelihood, irrevocable disintegration of civil society. We literally came a millimeter away from the end of the American experiment in July.
They must have met some Trump supporter at some point; they must know these people have guns, already massively distrust and even hate the government for good reason, and they’re not just going to let their leader take a headshot without some serious retaliation.
And this poll is not an outlier in terms of Democrat opinions or rhetoric.
Highly influential Congressman Jamie Raskin, in a criminally underreported story, announced a few months ago that he and his colleagues would use the 14th Amendment to try to prevent Trump from taking office — even in the event he wins the election.
Via The Federalist (emphasis added):
If you listen to U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the real insurrection will be led by Democrats and it will begin on Jan. 6, 2025 — should the American people dare to elect former President Donald Trump president again.
In a video clip making the rounds Monday on social media, the far left firebrand laments what he characterizes as a lazy U.S. Supreme Court interfering with the Democratic Party’s plan to interfere with the 2024 election.
“And so [the court] want to kick it to Congress, so it’s going to be up to us on Jan. 6, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified,” Raskin said in a panel discussion on Feb. 17, as the Supreme Court was mulling the constitutionality of the leftist Colorado secretary of state’s use of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to remove Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot.
“And then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions all because nine justices — not all of them, but these justices who have not many cases to look at every year, not much work to do, have a huge staff, great protection — simply do not want to do their job and interpret what the great 14th Amendment means,” Raskin declared at a Washington, D.C. bookstore gathering of self-important leftists.
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Clearly, MAGA would not tolerate such a brazen usurpation of the power of the state to subvert the democratic will of the people. War would surely ensue in such a scenario, as Raskin himself concedes.
Furthermore, we also now have bona fide political prisoners in these United States — a phenomenon once confined to Third World despots and the communist regimes of yesteryear.
Hundreds of nonviolent Capitol tourists are rotting in federal prison, including my friend, grandmother, Karen Jones.
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All of which begs the question: how much more abuse will Americans tolerate from the Democrats and their Deep State sponsors? This isn’t to cheerlead civil war; it’s a sober analysis of cause and effect.
Where things go post-November is entirely up in the air, but it definitely doesn’t look good no matter how the election turns out.
