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[Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: HERE.]
The attempted assassination of President Trump was on the right side of history. The inch that spared his life was on the wrong side of history.
Leftists see history as a series of confrontations between progressive and reactionary forces. The escalation of those confrontations from political protests “dissent is patriotic” to violent riots “the language of the unheard” to terrorism “the last desperate struggle of outraged and exasperated human nature” is blamed on the failure of society to become sufficiently socialist.
The right side of history arrives when society, and all conservative and reactionary forces, is overthrown. Assassinating a president, especially a reactionary one, is a means to that end.
Over the last 9 years, liberals had pursued every possible legal and illegal means from secret investigations to lawfare to street violence to prosecution on invented grounds to stop Trump.
Are we supposed to believe that the same political interests that defended the violent BLM riots as “mostly peaceful” were willing to shrink away from a targeted assassination of Trump?
Just call it a mostly peaceful assassination.
Nearly every Democrat politician, media outlet and cultural force has consistently made the case for the last 9 years that Trump is a unique threat that must be stopped by any means.
If there is anything that they have demonstrated over the years, it’s that they don’t believe any value, principle or safeguard matters more than getting him. Or getting to the right side of history. A movement vandalizing art treasures, killing babies and destroying black neighborhoods for the greater good could hardly quibble with one man’s death.
Every legal and moral code has been made subservient to the right side of history. The ends of saving the planet and transforming society always justify the means. Violence is a means. Like racism or breaking into the Capitol, it’s not inherently wrong, its morality rests on whether it falls on the right and progressive side or the wrong and reactionary side of history.
To regret the violence is to also to regret the movement. Those liberals who came to regret the violence eventually became conservatives because they came to question the ends.
Liberals ask us to accept two incompatible notions, that Trump is Hitler and they regret his attempted assassination. But if Trump indeed is Hitler, then wouldn’t shooting him be justified? Either they don’t believe their own analogy or they don’t regret the assassination attempt.
There’s no doubt that the obsessive hatred for Trump is real, but the need is as real as the hate. Every Republican presidential candidate, even the most milquetoast of them like Mitt Romney, have been compared to Hitler because the right side of history needs someone to hate.
Trump, unlike Romney or George W. Bush, understood that and embraced the persona. In contrast to many other Republicans, he didn’t expect to be liked by those who wanted to hate him. And the right side of history is all about finding someone to hate to justify the violence.
The greatest lie that leftists tell themselves is that they are violent only as a reaction. Someone, society, an economic system, human nature, always started it and they’re the ones fighting back. The reality is that the real purpose of every radical movement is violence. The promise of utopia is unachievable, but the impossible dream and its accompanying impossible standards justify the destruction of every flawed institution and the flawed people who live by it.
In France, leftists rioted before and after they won the election. Why riot after you’ve won? Because violence is both the means to victory and the ultimate purpose of victory. Out of power, leftists riot, in power they kill. The right side of history is the power to kill absolutely everyone.
Killing Trump was not an aberration, a turn away from the right side of history, but the thing itself. In the aftermath of the assassination attempt, the machinery of denial and projection hums along, spinning off conspiracy theories, projections and rationalizations. Ear truthers claim that Trump wasn’t really hit. Prominent intellectuals and academics speculate that it was a set up. Democrats and the media explain that it’s conservatives who are the violent dangerous ones.
An act of violence is an opportunity for self-examination. Mass murder, as Stalin was said to have pointed out, operates on the scale of statistics which is impossible for people to take in. Anne Frank is comprehensible where the Holocaust is not. A single story or moment can crystalize violence while a systematic campaign of destruction is too big to take in.
The Trump assassination attempt did what previous larger scale outbursts of leftist violence, like the congressional baseball game shooting, the campaign against the justices and BLM race riots could not because the man at the center of it had become the symbol of the unwoke. The seconds of the assassination showed what the right side of history really looks like up close.
The Left fears that moment because it understands the power of symbolism. It cannot bend economies to its will, command the ocean tide or change the human heart, but it understands how to tell a story because telling stories is what it does. The right side of history is a story that killed millions. The Trump assassination is the story of the right side of history. And its ugliness.
The Trump assassination, like the terrors of the French and Russian revolution, and Mao and Pol Pot in China and Cambodia, show what happens when the Left actually gets what it wants.
In Butler, PA, liberals briefly tasted what they had wanted all along. Some were shocked while others gloried in it. And that is not only the story of the Trump assassination, but of the Left. It’s the story of two centuries of mass murder, torture, fear, terror and the destruction of everything.
The right side of history doesn’t unite us, it doesn’t offer hope and its only outcome is death.
The left regrets almost killing Trump.
Not in the right way, of course… Which is why the following Monday, the left’s tv shows were cancelled by the left’s tv networks, in the hopes that none of the left’s truthfully candid opinions about it would spill out.
Civilization is but a thin crust capping a volcano. Liberals keep picking away at that crust.
I see where some nit-Wits called Crook A Hero the fact that their hiding their face with their stupid sign makes you wonder whom they are behind it all just like those Antifa Bolshevik gutter dwellers who hide their faces
“ In France, leftists rioted before and after they won the election. Why riot after you’ve won? ”
They didn’t win, they manipulated the system and defrauded the people, the mostly peaceful riots were a distraction organised by the establishment globalists.
Brilliant as always.
The pre-history of man is full of savagery, and aeons of time spent to make tiny amounts of progress. And myths “explaining” the world. There is a very thin veneer of civilization painted over masses of savages.
another brilliant article and as always a takeaway that made me laugh…”ear truther”. So good!
Gender dysphoria is at the root of Democ-rat ideology. They are a walking contradiction, like when they defund the police even as they empower the F.B.I. to kick down the doors of political opponents. Wholesale abortion by black Democ-rats (BLM?) and genocidal anti-Israel protests by Jewish Democ-rats (from the river to the sea) illustrate what can happen when a political partisan can’t tell the difference between a boy and a girl.
“Being on the right side of history” is a way of thinking about the future that descends from Hegel via Marx.” – James Hankins
Predestination is a claim that comes from religion, it comes from Judaism and Christianity. Islam also shares this supernatural, mystical, claim of an Almighty Spirit, or God, predetermining history, ultimately in control of history.
Hegel got the basic idea of a supernatural zeitgeist (Over Spirit, Uber Soul) guiding the stages of history from religion. In its essence it is religious supernaturalism and religious mysticism.
Supernaturalism and mysticism necessarily lead to tyranny over man’s mind and actions. Necessarily lead to discounting reason and the natural world as inferior to faith in the supernatural.
“Hegel would not have been possible but for Kant, who would not have been possible but for Plato. These three, more than any others, are the intellectual builders of Auschwitz.”― Leonard Peikoff, Ominous Parallels
Dear THX1138:
Come, let us reason together.
Since Ayn Rand held that LOGIC is fundamental in making sense of our ‘existence’, let’s do a mind experiment employing logic.
1. Logic holds that everything that begins to exist has a cause.
2. Modern science has determined that our cosmos had a beginning.
3. Logic thus proves our cosmos had a cause. Stated another way: Logic proves there is a ‘reality’ that existed before and beyond our cosmos of time, space and matter.
4. Logic holds that ‘something’ cannot come out of ‘nothing’ (see: #1. above).
With these four steps we have determined there is a ‘reality’ beyond our ‘natural’ world. Would it be against reason to refer to this “reality” as “supernatural”? I think not.
In failing to explain away the above logic, both Rand and Peikoff have failed to refute the probability of the supernatural and of a Creator God, both of which would exist beyond time, space and matter.
Kent
Christians believe God is both the author of all that is and providentially controls all things according to the counsel of His will. See Isaiah 14:24 and Ephesians 1:11.
As for the idea of fate, this idea has been with us from the very beginning, and western civilization was no different. The Greeks gave us the Three Fates (Moirai).
If interested, look here at the many, many expressions of the idea of divine providence here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_fate_deities
So, why attack Judaism and Christianity unless you have an irrational hatred of their God who does not exist?
Wow! Another great article Mr. Greenfield! Your article not only explains so much of the macro world of the left but also the micro (the leftists in your family!) world of the leftist. Leftists see everything in life through a “feelings” based lens. These people are difficult to live with on the micro and the macro!
Are you paying any attention to the claims that the whole thing was staged by Trump and his side? It’s ridiculous on the face of it, and I don’t see anyone of significance among the Dems saying it, but there are questions (the blood looks fake, the seemingly posed “fight” photo, etc.) Do you have any thoughts?
Leftists are wrong more than they are right.
FYI, it was real. Who exactly is a better question. Who gains by Trump’s demise? Answer: the Left along with those Eisenhower citizens warned about. Some are really racking in the cash under the leftists’ regimes.
Ponder Please:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bombshell-investigative-report-claims-to-link-would-be-trump-assassin-with-fbi-office-in-dc/ar-BB1qu1DQ
The would-be-assassin fired 3-shots. A second folly came from probably downstairs of the same building, i.e., gov employees. The third, highly probable deliberately took out the 20-year-old.
Convincing analysis.
Obviously, if it was real, the Left was behind it, but what about all the weird things that are being pointed out about Trump’s behavior after being supposedly shot?
(You seem to have a typo in the phrase about Eisenhower.)
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.”(Orwell)
Truth is violent in the presence of evil, and explains progressive intolerance to it.
God is no pacifist. He uses violence to both demonstrate and defend Truth. There are many, many examples of this in Scripture.
Fauci called it a “superficial wound” so I guess it follows that it was a superficial assassination.
Pure treachery is afoot with the Democrats; we can expect more in the days ahead as they try to hold on to their power.
DEI in action and reality.
Do we want DEI in airline pilots and surgeons?
Hell no. This is proof. Cackling Vapid Kamalala is proof.
DEI = Discrimination Exclusion Isolation
DEI = Demoncraps Exhibiting Incompetence
While watching the horror unfold Saturday, July 13, 2024 I see this pudgy short woman fumbling to holster her sidearm and not knowing what the F’ to do? Not competence, not training falls into place but looking to mimic what other agents were doing.
Now we have a name to the image and Agent Fupa is the fubar.https://youtube.com/shorts/TU52sWNoCVw?si=1l7YhtaUSKND4NmI
My God, Daniel, one of your very best. Bravo.
Well said Daniel! 100%!