American Left Allowed Its Hatred For Trump Exceed Its Love For America | Bobby Burack

President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt over the weekend at a rally in Pennsylvania. A bullet grazed his ear and would have likely killed him had he not tilted his head at the last millisecond. A father of two and local firefighter named Corey Comperatore died as a bystander, heroically shielding his family members from incoming bullets. 

The shooting drew a lengthy list of emotions from Americans – from sadness to anger, from horror to relief.  Meanwhile, politicians and media members presented themselves as shocked. But they weren't really shocked. No one who had been paying attention could sincerely say they were shocked.

An assassination attempt on Trump was inevitable. It has been inevitable since November 2022, when Trump officially announced he would launch a second presidential campaign. We have warned of such on OutKick several times since May.

For nearly two years, people with direct access to the megaphone have desperately tried to radicalize the nation against Trump. The plan was not to defeat him at the ballot box, but to eliminate him before his name could ever appear on the ballots.

Democrats and their media allies have raised the temperature over the past month. Despite two years of weaponizing the justice system against him, Trump has mounted a substantial lead over Biden in the polls. Internal Democrat polling warns Trump could top 330 electoral votes. Only 270 are needed to become the president.

Consequently, the "Trump is Hitler" script has escalated rapidly since the June debate.

At 8 p.m. the night before the assassination attempt on Trump, Biden posted on X, "Americans want a president, not a dictator." Several hosts on CNN and MSNBC have likened Trump to Hitler. Joy Reid said he is Hitler. Just last week, the New Republic magazine released a cover with a picture of a face that was half Hitler, half Trump. 

Those are a few of many examples.

We do not know the motives of the wannabe assassin (we will not say his name and glorify him) as of publication. But we do know that he is 20 years old. He has heard for around half of his life that Trump was an existential threat to democracy.

Imagine believing that. Imagine how you might respond to believing that we are 270 electoral votes away from violent authoritarian rule. There are fringe Americans who almost certainly do believe that.

"I am fucking furious beyond words. Fucking every left wing media member who has been calling him Hitler for the past eight years," Clay Travis posted on X Saturday evening. "This is on them. They made this happen."

Adolf Hitler is known as the most notorious and barbaric dictator of the past century. History books suggest that killing Hitler before he wreaked global havoc would've been a moral act. It probably would have been. The "Trump is Hitler" crowd has been daring someone to believe the same is true about the former president.

And it's all based on a lie.

Trump was president for four years. He didn't rule the nation like a fascist or inflict harm on his dissenters. Forget Hitler, Trump did less damage to our country than the other three presidents of this generation. For example, he didn't try to put a political opponent in prison for life. Biden did.

Trump's greatest sin is that he undermined the establishment of Washington through the most effective populist movement of this century. And the people in charge, with their media lackeys, have tried to dehumanize him to prevent it from happening again. Depicting him as a ruthless dictator is just the latest attempt. 

TRUMP TOWER, NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - 2016/11/09: Various protests gathered in and around Manhattan and eventually marched through the streets, wending their way to Trump Tower. Groups including Black Lives Matter, Socialist Alternative and Pussy Grabs Back converged with thousands of disgruntled citizens, chanting"Not My President" and "Fuck Donald Trump."  Throughout the march, the NYPD threatened to arrest the protestors who blocked traffic, marched into a few businesses and defied police orders to return to the sidewalk. All the varying marches converged near 42nd Street and Broadway and then, after making their way to 5th Avenue, protested in front of Trump Tower. Hundreds of police lined the street and set barricades. A dozens sanitation vehicles also line the street, blocking any access to the building. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"The United States was founded on the very belief that it is moral to kill human beings to rid the citizenry of tyranny and dictatorship," wrote David Marcus in an op-ed for Fox News Digital. "That is why we don’t accuse our fellow citizens of such things lightly."

The "Trump is Hitler" brigade claims its hatred toward Trump is part of a quest to preserve democracy. Yet it's their very demonization of political enemies that has historically created destabilization. 

Speaking of dictatorships, Nazis rose to power in the 1930s in part because the destabilized state of Germany left citizens uniquely susceptible to extremist propaganda.

This level of division in America is not sustainable. There is virtually no way this chapter of American history can end pleasantly without a serious change of tone.

We were literally centimeters away from Donald Trump being murdered on live television Saturday evening. What that would have wrought for our nation cannot be known. But it would have been very bad and likely violent.  Trump survived the bullet by the grace of God. But he's not safe. Nor is anyone who supports him.

The leaders of a properly functioning nation would see the assassination attempt of a former U.S. president and current GOP candidate and immediately turn down the vile rhetoric for the sake of the entire nation. Corporate journalists and television hosts stop spreading hysteria and focus on Trump's policies. 

Some of that is happening. A few are saying the right things, at least for now. Unfortunately, for too many, the inflamed anti-Trump rhetoric has continued following the assassination attempt. 

We are not a properly functioning nation. We are morally bankrupt. We have been for quite some time – ever since the American Left let its hatred of Donald Trump exceed its love for America, to be exact.