Welp, the Trump-loathing crew of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday trotted out perhaps its most dire warning yet of what will happen to America should Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election.
Civil war. Yeah.
Simpish co-host Joe Scarborough
kicked off the festivities by sharing his TDS-riddled thoughts about Trump's triumphant speech at his Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the July 13 assassination attempt against the former president.
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Next up, sniveling British "journalist" and broadcaster Katty Kay trotted out the left's "threat to democracy" narrative if Trump wins.
I keep thinking back to that book, "How Democracies Die" by Ziblatt and Novitsky. And they talk about the two things that are needed for democracies to die in countries that have been democratic.
And one is the demonization of the other, of any other group, or kind of a minority group, and the normalization of the rhetoric of violence.
Stop the tape.
As Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R)
posted on X on July 13, the day of the first assassination attempt against Trump:
Democrats and liberals in the media have called Trump a fascist. They’ve compared him to Hitler. They’ve tried to lock him up. They tried to remove his Secret Service protection. Just this week, Joe Biden said he wanted to put Trump in the crosshairs.This isn’t some unfortunate incident. This was an assassination attempt by a madman inspired by the rhetoric of the radical left.
And of course, we can add "white supremacist," "racist," "homophobic," "transphobic," and a host of other demonizing terms to the left's list of ad hominem attacks against Trump.
Kay's second thing needed for democracies to die was the Democrats' favorite trope of all:
And in a country with so many guns it doesn't take very much. People, perhaps not a huge leap of imagination, to imagine communities that, were Donald Trump were to lose, would see this as a, as a reason, as a giving them permission, if you like, to take out some kind of vengeance on people who didn't vote for him and didn't support him.
Nonsense, but fearmongering about "gun violence" by the left translates to further restricting or banning the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners.