Republicans are seeking to capitalize on Trump’s assassination attempt — using it to demand everyone stop talking about his threats to democracy.

Republicans are seeking to capitalize on Trump’s assassination attempt — using it to demand everyone stop talking about his threats to democracy

As Donald Trump recovers from an assassination attempt and Republicans head to Milwaukee for his coronation this week, the GOP elite has rallied around a new messaging strategy: emotionally blackmailing Democratic politicians, journalists, Hollywood celebs, and numerous other Trump critics into shutting up about the former president’s openly authoritarian vows and his extreme policy agenda.

Since the deadly shooting at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday, prominent conservatives have been working to blame the incident on Trump’s enemies for labeling him a “fascist” and for fanning heated “rhetoric” that, in their telling, caused the would-be assassin to shoot at the former and perhaps future American president. “When the message goes out constantly that the election of Donald Trump would be a threat to democracy and that the Republic would end, it heats up the environment,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) saidSunday, adding: “It’s simply not true. Everyone needs to turn the rhetoric down.”

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    772·
    4 months ago

    Fuck you. You made that call. You have been for six fucken years. Now you’re pissed that when it was answered the barrel was pointed at you? I hope you fear every convention, every speech, every relaxing day you ever have. Make no mistake, this is no Reichstag Fire, we can see through you.

    • Delusional@lemmy.world
      30·
      4 months ago

      I would love it if someone would go to every rally of his with a bushel of balloons and occasionally pop them at random. Someone should follow him and do it everywhere he goes.