Voters should be ashamed of Democrat reactions to Trump assassination hit

Donald Trump will use the convention stage this week to call for unity in the face of a failed assassination plot, but Democrats and the media have other ideas.

Some in the media are trying to shrug off the shocking and tragic event in which Trump narrowly avoided death, a spectator was killed and two others injured, with headlines like this:

As social media filled with chatter blaming President Biden’s and Democrats’ menacing rhetoric decrying Trump as an existential threat to democracy and a threat to freedom, Kyle Clark of 9News went for the low-hanging fruit and baited his favorite punching bag to blame the same.

NEW: Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO) tells 9NEWS that “Joe Biden is responsible for the shooting.” #copolitics pic.twitter.com/cTXLj77ITy

— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) July 14, 2024

Biden should heed his own advice and knock off the existential threat to democracy crap.

Montage of democrats calling for violence and unrest.
Never forget. pic.twitter.com/juLIGCETQ2

— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) July 14, 2024

Colorado Democrats on social media set out to victim shame Trump, while some offered their halfhearted concern.

And then there are those who continued to poison the political atmosphere.

Deleted his account, I assume that means he is resigning? #coleg #copolitics https://t.co/O3fRR7ZJDj pic.twitter.com/cbcs1JOiy7

— Heidi Ganahl (@heidiganahl) July 14, 2024

State Rep. Steven Woodrow should resign in shame. But his colleagues in the Democrat-controlled state House will ask for nothing of the sort.

That’s now left up to Democrat voters in his Denver district.

Here’s what his opponent in that race had to say:

HD2 GOP NOMINEE MICHAEL DIMANNA’S STATEMENT ON REP. WOODROW’S ABHORRENT POST ON X#Trump2024 #ColoradoPolitics pic.twitter.com/6JSGvMfoPY

— Michael DiManna for HD2 (@DiMannaforHD2) July 14, 2024

Republican Jeff Crank, who beat state GOP chairman Dave Williams at the ballot box for the party nomination in the 5th congressional district, called Woodrow’s post sickening.

“He should resign immediately and all Colorado Democrats and media should have the decency to demand it. We do not need elected leaders who show this kind of hatred and lack of judgement. America is better than this, Crank said in an X post.

But wait, there’s more.

Shad Murib, the Democrat state party chairman, cast Woodrow’s tweet as regrettable, then got down to business blasting Boebert for suggesting the president’s own extreme rhetoric had gone too far.

Then there’s the Democrat congressional delegation, who lined up on X with identical, canned talking points to feign sympathy.

They couldn’t even bring themselves to acknowledge that a former president of these here United States and current presidential nominee had nearly been assassinated live on television for the whole world to see. Or, that an American citizen practicing his fundamental rights had been killed, and two others seriously wounded.

Bleating in unison like sheep, they cast the assassination plot as “political violence,” as if it were nothing more than one of their antifa riots.

Or as the FBI is now investigating the attempt on Trump’s life — domestic terrorism.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet: “Political violence in any form is unacceptable.”

U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper: “Political violence is never the answer…”

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse: “Political violence of any kind is unacceptable…”

U.S. Rep. Jason Crow: “Political violence has no place in our democracy.”

U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo: “Political violence is unacceptable.”

It’s a miracle none of the Democrats called for gun control.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen had no comment, while Diana DeGette didn’t get the talking points and gave her thanks that Trump wasn’t seriously injured.

“As President Biden aptly noted in his Oval Office address tonight, the overheated rhetoric needs to stop as the election approaches,” DeGette said.

The rhetoric is beyond overheated. Its recklessness has consequences beyond the election.

And yet our democracy is not teetering on disaster. It’s the same election America has held every four years for 235 years.

Make your voices heard at the ballot box.