July 13th: The Foregone Assassination

Pop. Pop. Pop. The sound of tragedy bursts forth on a partly cloudy day in Western Pennsylvania. An excited, rowdy crowd was listening to a man they supported for the presidency of the United States when without warning, they became filled with fear for their lives. A shooter on a flat rooftop looked from afar at the political gathering, waiting for the right moment to unleash a bullet from his weapon. The music at the rally commences when a man, wearing a bright red hat with the logo, “Make America Great Again”, walks out dancing to Lee Greenwood’s “G-d Bless the USA”.

He points endearingly to his zealous, on-edge fans, and walks to the podium where he will deliver his message of a hopeful future. He begins his performance, by talking about the dangers of the current President of the USA, and the corrupt, horrific policies his administration has unleashed. Minute by minute goes by when after a short seven minutes, he slightly tilts his head; the shooter on the rooftop looks at the tilted man, he presses on the trigger once, twice, thrice…….. History is changed forever…… The bullets whisk past the barriers of security personnel, entering the raucous now unsecured rally.

The tilted man hears a noise, he gets startled as he feels something sink into his skin; he touches his ear, and instead of a dead mosquito lying on his palm, he discovers, oozing crimson-colored blood. He realizes what occurred, and quickly ducks onto the stage to safety. Security comes to help him get up; the crowd is visibly scared for their hero’s life, and their own, but they instantaneously see the glimmer of sunshine in the dark-clouded moment– their hero streaked with blood on his right-ear and his forehead, raises his fist, and with visible force screams, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” An American flag waves its red, white and blue stripes and stars while the bloodied man stands up to his attacker; the crowd roars with “U-S-A, U-S-A”, as “The Fight” continues for another day.

Donald Trump is a controversial figure in American politics, but he brings issues to the surface that were ignored by the political mainstream. The “forgotten man and woman”, as he calls them, is the idea that millions of working-class Americans, once the rock of the nation, have been disposed of by politicians like trash. Donald Trump was and is a threat to the establishment of both parties simply because their political futures and careers were foreboded to collapse in the wake of the rise of the “forgottan man”.

Despite the constant controversies and “scandals”, Donald Trump won the hearts of millions of Americans in 2016, and 2020. His existence in the political realm has turned the spectrum of the country’s elitist class upside down. It was because of that, that his political opponents on both sides of the aisle, tried to stop him at every turn. But 9 years later, he is on the verge of becoming president again, this time being more emboldened than ever.

Throughout his political career, his opponents have had an investigation into alleged Russian collusion, impeached him for a phone conversation with the Ukrainian president, impeached him again for expressing his right to protest the legitimacy of the 2020 election, indicted him four times, convicted him in a Democrat-run courthouse in New York City. Despite all that, he persisted time and time again. What remaining option is there if they can’t defeat him after multiple attempts, except assassination?

The assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life on July 13th will not only be remembered as a dark day in American history but it will also be remembered as a day where the shock of a deadly attempt on the former president’s life was predictable. The tragedy of July 13th was not the bullet, but the inevitability that a bullet would eventually be shot at Donald Trump. Presidents have been shot before, but never with a wide sense of predictability; the nature of this assassination has enlightened the world about the place America has come to be. The age of simply disagreeing about tax policy has turned into a tuggle war over personal characteristics, and mudslinging rhetoric.

The age of simply calling your opponents, opponents, has transformed into viewing each other as enemies, simply because intolerance is the only thing politics feeds on. Yes, one could blame both sides as many politically correct politicians have done the past few days, but one must contemplate the patterns that the country has been going through the past decade, to be able to genuinely root out the poison.

In 2008, Barack Obama promised America that he wouldn’t distinguish between “red states and blue states”; he promised an America where a president would lead not based on party, but on what was right for the nation. The Obama coalition that overwhelmingly elected him in 2008 was a mix of blacks, whites, conservatives, and Republicans, believing in the promise of “Hope” and of “Yes, We Can!” That was until Obama became president when he unleashed divisive rhetoric against white Americans by inciting race wars and blaming police for shootings– ending the Obama coalition of 2008.

By 2016, America was steeped in a partisan tuggle war, escalated dramatically by Obama and his minions. Donald Trump didn’t start this fight, he was a response to the hate-filled rhetoric of the Democrat party. Labeling John McCain, a war hero, as the next Hitler, to labeling moderate Republican Mitt Romney as someone who would put blacks back into slavery, was only the beginning of a new era of Democrat party politics. When one is being punched, you don’t passively sit and wait for a savior, instead you defend yourself against your opponent. The Republican party had a lot of nice, squeaky clean, energetic politicians, who talked clearly, but refused to engage with the rhetoric of the Left; that was until Donald Trump descended those golden escalators.

Once Donald Trump became president, what was once thought impossible became the reality for the Democrats; unvarnished hateful rhetoric became the standard for Democrat politicians. Democrats have called Trump supporters “deplorables” “xenophobic” “unredeemables” “a cult” “Nazis” and other inaccurate and horrific terms.

Democrat politicians have even gone as far as to call for the assassination of Donald Trump, including NY Representative Dan Goldman who called for Trump’s “elimination” on MSNBC a few months ago, who should in addition, immediately be expelled from Congress. Furthermore, Maxine Waters told her supporters to harass Trump’s first Cabinet, Democrats including Joe Biden have labeled Trump’s rhetoric as Hitler-like, with liberal magazines portraying Trump as the modern Hitler.

If one sincerely believed that Donald Trump was Hitler or a threat to democracy, who wouldn’t assassinate him?! But in the days following the attempt on Trump’s life, Joe Biden, the instigator on Trump’s life has called for unity and to “lower down the temperature”. What is unity to Joe Biden?! Calling MAGA supporters extremists and insurrectionists?

In truth, the unity that Joe Biden demands is your submission. The man who fired millions for not getting a vaccine, the man who let 20 million illegal aliens into the country, isn’t someone to unite with. Unity to the Left is nothing but a lie!

Donald Trump is controversial because he spoke about things that no one else had the guts to discuss, and that made him a threat to everything the establishment stood for. 9 years later, they can’t get over the “president” in Donald Trump’s title; they have gone to incredible lengths to defeat him, and have failed time and time again. The assassination attempt of July 13th should be a wake-up call to the Right that the Left isn’t our friends, they truly believe in killing people they disagree with. If the Left could have their way, they would hurt all of us, but thank G-d, on July 13th, Donald Trump stood in their way.