Trump Created This Atmosphere Of Political Violence That Shot At Him

Dash MacIntyre
3 min readJul 15, 2024
Photo by Amir Hosseini on Unsplash

Republicans and sympathetic media pundits are gaslighting America when they pretend Democrats’ rhetoric is in any way related to the attempted shooting of Donald Trump.

First off, when Democrats say Trump is a threat to democracy, they’re pointing out the fucking blatant obvious.

Trump is the only president in US history to refuse to acknowledge losing an election, and the only president to incite a coup attempt to stay in power.

He agrees with his critics when they say he wants to be a dictator, and he won’t stop saying he’ll be a dictator on his first day. He also won’t stop fawning over the strength of the world’s dictators. In fact, virtually the only world leaders he compliments are dictators.

Trump explored how to order the military and national guard numerous times to shoot protesters. He has been advocating for more police brutality his entire political career, and his most signature campaign slogans are about locking up his political opponents. He retweets and retruths idiot social media trolls who imply the need for violence, and pontificates what his “Second Amendment people” might someday do.

Meanwhile, the party Trump leads tirelessly obstructs any and all gun control, and often suggests everyone should be armed at…

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Dash MacIntyre

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.