The Republican Party has always wanted to be the tough-on-crime party, and nobody has worn the ArmorAll of toughness more steadfastly than the Yellin’ Felon. From advocating for the execution of five Central Park Five, black guys who turned out to be completely innocent, to wistful daydreaming about hanging his Vice President for treason, the Mango Miscreant has always been in front of the GOP’s penchant for simple, bloodthirsty solutions to perceived problems.
And he represented the feeling of his party well. If an average Republican was told last Friday that a convicted criminal had been shot at and merely had his ear grazed, his reaction would doubtless have been, “Too bad they didn’t blow his head off.” Then he would have resumed buying golf pants.
Even violence against non-criminals was considered a good joke by the MAGA hordes. Nancy Pelosi’s hubster was beaten with a hammer, and the injuries to this octogenarian have been wisecracked about by Trump and his family ever since, in a spirit of good humor and with a wry self-assurance that they, as conservative males, would know exactly what to do if someone rang their doorbell and then tried to beat them to death with a carpentry tool.
I can’t remember the number of times Trump has threatened violence against others. Fortunately, ABC News can. Fifty-four is the number they came up with. All of which were shrugged off by the Republican Party.
Now that same GOP is clutching its nuts in righteous umbrage. How dare anyone resort to violence against the Cantaloupe Convict? The more advanced thinkers among them are blaming Democrats for calling Trump a criminal, a traitor, a liar and a threat to democracy. Of course, all of these accusations are substantially true, but that doesn’t prevent Republicans from caterwauling about the injustice of it all, and the ear-blood now on the hands of those who have called out Trump for his despicability.
So, a kid too young to legally drink, who wasn’t having much of a life, decided to sacrifice it in order to end the threat he thought Trump posed to this country. It would make a better story if he was Liz Cheney’s secret love child, but as of this writing he seems to be the classic solitary gunman, a boy who borrowed his dad’s AR-15 and decided to make history.
It’s hardly worth mentioning that Republicans will not blame themselves for the assassination attempt, despite their habit of making backslapping jokes about killing people, or for letting possession of AR 15's become legal again under Bush, Jr.
Nor do I expect them to veer from their current position that having a loaded gun on your person is right up there in importance with wearing fresh underwear when you leave the house.
The frenzied Christian throngs that support the Candy Corn Criminal promptly gave credit to God and Jesus for sparing Trump and killing a local firefighter instead, in what they regard as a profound display of divine wisdom.
In Heaven, Jesus is massaging his eyeballs in frustration. John McClain is trying to console Him. “Yeah,” the Senator says. “I like people who weren’t shot.”
And he represented the feeling of his party well. If an average Republican was told last Friday that a convicted criminal had been shot at and merely had his ear grazed, his reaction would doubtless have been, “Too bad they didn’t blow his head off.” Then he would have resumed buying golf pants.
Even violence against non-criminals was considered a good joke by the MAGA hordes. Nancy Pelosi’s hubster was beaten with a hammer, and the injuries to this octogenarian have been wisecracked about by Trump and his family ever since, in a spirit of good humor and with a wry self-assurance that they, as conservative males, would know exactly what to do if someone rang their doorbell and then tried to beat them to death with a carpentry tool.
I can’t remember the number of times Trump has threatened violence against others. Fortunately, ABC News can. Fifty-four is the number they came up with. All of which were shrugged off by the Republican Party.
Now that same GOP is clutching its nuts in righteous umbrage. How dare anyone resort to violence against the Cantaloupe Convict? The more advanced thinkers among them are blaming Democrats for calling Trump a criminal, a traitor, a liar and a threat to democracy. Of course, all of these accusations are substantially true, but that doesn’t prevent Republicans from caterwauling about the injustice of it all, and the ear-blood now on the hands of those who have called out Trump for his despicability.
So, a kid too young to legally drink, who wasn’t having much of a life, decided to sacrifice it in order to end the threat he thought Trump posed to this country. It would make a better story if he was Liz Cheney’s secret love child, but as of this writing he seems to be the classic solitary gunman, a boy who borrowed his dad’s AR-15 and decided to make history.
It’s hardly worth mentioning that Republicans will not blame themselves for the assassination attempt, despite their habit of making backslapping jokes about killing people, or for letting possession of AR 15's become legal again under Bush, Jr.
Nor do I expect them to veer from their current position that having a loaded gun on your person is right up there in importance with wearing fresh underwear when you leave the house.
The frenzied Christian throngs that support the Candy Corn Criminal promptly gave credit to God and Jesus for sparing Trump and killing a local firefighter instead, in what they regard as a profound display of divine wisdom.
In Heaven, Jesus is massaging his eyeballs in frustration. John McClain is trying to console Him. “Yeah,” the Senator says. “I like people who weren’t shot.”
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