It is quite clear that there is enormous amounts of hatred coming from both sides of the aisle this year, given that it is an election year, that is to be expected. Except this has proven to be a unique year in the history of American politics. As a result people have been flinging hateful, and in some cases, violent rhetoric at each other or at Donald Trump in specific. Please understand, that I recognize the same things have happened to Democratic candidates and president, but my sole focus is what we have been seeing over the past few days happen to Trump.
It wasn't really until late October of last year that the political world started taking Donald Trump seriously. People started asking, why doesn't Trump button his jacket when he makes his appearances? It wasn't until, according to his former senior advisor and confidante, Roger Stone, in an interview with conservative talk show host Larry Elder, that he revealed why. Trump never buttoned his jacket because he was always wearing a bulletproof vest.
Trump had until then not worn a bulletproof vest. But that same month, drug kingpin El Chapo placed a $100 million bounty on his head. Wearing a bulletproof vest became standard procedure from then on for Trump in his campaign stops. It was also around that time that Trump began receiving protection from the Secret Service. Less than a month later, in December, Trump proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration into the United States. That proposal drew a torrent of death threats against him on Twitter. Though the death threats had been going on since September, the volume and severity of the threats seemed to increase afterwards.
It wasn't until February that Trump made the first of a series of incendiary remarks at a Las Vegas campaign rally where he said he would have liked "to punch that guy (a protester) in the face." And it wasn't until last week that the manifestation of Trump's rhetoric drew one 70 year old man to elbow an anti-Trump demonstrator in the face at Trump's Fayetteville, N.C. campaign rally.
A few more examples of violent rhetoric in the past:
This past Saturday in Chicago, Illinois, students from the University of Illinois at Chicago, along with Bernie Sanders supporters, spurred on by MoveOn.org, instigated a violent protest outside of UIC pavilion which caused Donald Trump to cancel his rally there. On November 6, 2012, there were numerous death threats made against Mitt Romney on Twitter as he made his final campaign push before the polls closed.
On June 13, 2008, at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, then Democratic Nominee Barack Obama encouraged his voters, "if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
Throughout the Presidency of George W. Bush, it was common to see people comparing him to Hitler or in cases holding up signs like this, or this.On April 14,1992, former President Ronald Reagan was attacked on stage as he accepted an award from the National Association of Broadcasters, in Las Vegas.
Now, in this case, where did the majority of the violent rhetoric come from? Where has it originated? Leftists, who consistently preach of tolerance, yet resort to violence and death threats in attempts to silence their political opposition. In the examples I listed, there too, leftists were the culprits. Violent rhetoric is wrong no matter who it comes from, but leftists should own up to the fact they started it, this time.
It wasn't really until late October of last year that the political world started taking Donald Trump seriously. People started asking, why doesn't Trump button his jacket when he makes his appearances? It wasn't until, according to his former senior advisor and confidante, Roger Stone, in an interview with conservative talk show host Larry Elder, that he revealed why. Trump never buttoned his jacket because he was always wearing a bulletproof vest.
Trump had until then not worn a bulletproof vest. But that same month, drug kingpin El Chapo placed a $100 million bounty on his head. Wearing a bulletproof vest became standard procedure from then on for Trump in his campaign stops. It was also around that time that Trump began receiving protection from the Secret Service. Less than a month later, in December, Trump proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration into the United States. That proposal drew a torrent of death threats against him on Twitter. Though the death threats had been going on since September, the volume and severity of the threats seemed to increase afterwards.
It wasn't until February that Trump made the first of a series of incendiary remarks at a Las Vegas campaign rally where he said he would have liked "to punch that guy (a protester) in the face." And it wasn't until last week that the manifestation of Trump's rhetoric drew one 70 year old man to elbow an anti-Trump demonstrator in the face at Trump's Fayetteville, N.C. campaign rally.
A few more examples of violent rhetoric in the past:
This past Saturday in Chicago, Illinois, students from the University of Illinois at Chicago, along with Bernie Sanders supporters, spurred on by MoveOn.org, instigated a violent protest outside of UIC pavilion which caused Donald Trump to cancel his rally there. On November 6, 2012, there were numerous death threats made against Mitt Romney on Twitter as he made his final campaign push before the polls closed.
On June 13, 2008, at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, then Democratic Nominee Barack Obama encouraged his voters, "if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
Throughout the Presidency of George W. Bush, it was common to see people comparing him to Hitler or in cases holding up signs like this, or this.On April 14,1992, former President Ronald Reagan was attacked on stage as he accepted an award from the National Association of Broadcasters, in Las Vegas.
Now, in this case, where did the majority of the violent rhetoric come from? Where has it originated? Leftists, who consistently preach of tolerance, yet resort to violence and death threats in attempts to silence their political opposition. In the examples I listed, there too, leftists were the culprits. Violent rhetoric is wrong no matter who it comes from, but leftists should own up to the fact they started it, this time.
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