There Is Probably No Stopping Trump Now

In 2020, when then-President Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, most national surveys showed him trailing Democrat challenger Joe Biden by seven to ten points. Four years later, as he prepared for the 2024 Republican National Convention, Trump was the...

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In 2020, when then-President Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, most national surveys showed him trailing Democrat challenger Joe Biden by seven to ten points. Four years later, as he prepared for the 2024 Republican National Convention, Trump was the beneficiary of a double-digit swing in the polls that put him ahead of President Biden by three to six points nationally. This manifested itself at the state level as consistent leads in the obvious battlegrounds and an expanded map of toss ups. Then, during a Saturday rally in Pennsylvania, a deranged young man decided to take literally President Biden’s exhortation: “It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.”

The assassination attempt left two people wounded in addition to Trump, and two others dead — including the shooter. Moreover, it may well have guaranteed a Trump victory in November. It may seem crass to discuss politics so soon after the deadly shooting, but this heinous crime is very difficult to separate from the increasingly incendiary rhetoric employed by President Biden and his fellow Democrats about Donald Trump. Biden’s “bulls-eye” remark was originally made during a phone call with large-dollar donors. As the Wall Street Journal reports, however, it was eagerly circulated by the President’s staff: “The quote was sent around by the Biden campaign to journalists after the call, a sign that the Biden team viewed the comment as part of their message rather than a gaffe.”

Yet it was a gaffe. Trump was already in far better shape than at any point in his previous campaigns before the assassination attempt. The Economist’s prediction model, for example, showed the former president with a three in four chance of winning the Electoral College. Nate Silver’s model confirms that this is indeed the state of the race. Silver provides this grim assessment of the current president’s chances: “Biden’s Electoral College win probability is the lowest to date in our forecast, having slipped to about 1-in-4.” With only four months left in the campaign, this is the worst possible time for the President’s bombast to incite violence. But it did and Biden reluctantly responded with this perfunctory statement:

I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.

I’m grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well. I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information.

Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it.

Just the day before, however, he made a speech in Detroit during which he characterized the former president as follows: “Trump said if he wins he will be a dictator on day one, and he means it. We are not going to let that happen. Over my dead body will that happen … Trump is a threat to this nation.” Students of history will recognize this language. It is precisely how Brutus, Cassius, and their merry band of assassins described Julius Caesar before they murdered him on the ides of March in 44 B.C. They justified the assassination by claiming he was threat to the Roman Republic. If this sounds familiar, it is no illusion. This was the ancient equivalent to the modern claim that Trump is a threat to “our democracy.”

This project didn’t work out very well, however. Caesar was, like Trump, very popular with the “deplorables,” as Hillary Clinton dubbed their modern counterparts. And, when his will was read to them at his funeral, they discovered that the “evil dictator” had bequeathed a large part of his fortune and property to them. At that point, Caesar’s assassins fled Rome. At length they and their allies were tracked down, defeated, and they did the “honorable thing.” Fortunately, our politics are usually not so violent — absurd claims about the Jan. 6, 2021 “insurrection” notwithstanding. All that is required to stop the madness that seems to define the Biden regime is for the voters to turn out in large enough numbers to throw them out.

This was already in the cards before Biden’s meltdown during the June 27 debate. His disastrous policies — foreign and domestic — were damaging the country and a majority of the electorate knew it. The debate merely permitted the voters to see that he is no more capable of exercising the duties of the Presidency than a philodendron. Then Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to murder the only man, Donald Trump, who has a chance of defeating Biden in anything resembling a free and fair  election. The assassination attempt was, to coin a phrase, a wake up call. Now, as Trump prepares to accept the Republican presidential nomination for the third time, it is all too obvious how badly the nation really needs him.

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