Democrats must ditch unhinged alarmism after Trump assassination attempt
Democrats must ditch unhinged alarmism after Trump assassination attempt
President Joe Biden condemned the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life in no uncertain terms on Saturday night. He deserves credit for doing this bare moral minimum, but now Democratic officials and their liberal media allies must stop with their constant alarmism and doomsday exaggerations before our culture war gets even more out of control.
After all, just days ago, the official “Biden HQ” social media accounts shared a screenshot from The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian television series where women are forced into sex slavery, and absurdly suggested that this is the fate awaiting America under a second Trump term. So, too, Biden has repeatedly said that Trump represents an existential threat to democracy and also that Trump would be a “dictator” if elected again, twisting a comment the former president clearly said as a joke.
We’ve seen even more extreme rhetoric from left-leaning media outlets. MSNBC anchor Nicole Wallace suggested, with no basis, that if Trump wins, her show will be taken off air and we’ll see an end to a free press in America. Another MSNBC anchor, Joy Reid, recently described a second Trump term as “Hitler in the White House.” The New Republic even recently published a cover story styling Trump as Hitler.
These are just examples from the past few weeks of hundreds if not thousands of doomsday, alarmist warnings about Trump we’ve seen from the left-of-center establishment. There are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be made of Trump, but all this rhetoric clearly overstates the facts and, given that we already had one Trump presidency and literally none of these things happened, is incredibly detached from factual reality.