Dems apocalyptic rhetoric about Trump only increased after first assassination attempt

If Democrats didn’t believe they’d put Donald Trump in an assassin’s crosshairs the first time, they have no excuse for pleading ignorance now.Ryan Routh, the suspect who hid in the bushes at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club waiting for his shot at former ex-president — AK-47-style rifled at the ready, serial number filed off — wasn’t some 20-year-old without a political paper trail, like the first would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks.Routh, 58, “frequently posted about politics” on X and other social media, had a Biden-Harris sticker on his truck, “and exclusively donated to Democratic candidates and causes dating back to 2019,” The Post reports.He even featured in a New York Times story last year highlighting his efforts to recruit Afghan soldiers to fight against Russia in Ukraine.Willing to fight in Ukraine himself — though the Ukrainians didn’t want him or his dubious recruits — Routh wanted to be a man of action, and he was prepared to kill for a cause.But if the cause of democracy in Ukraine was worth killing for, what about the safety of democracy right here in America?Routh took both literally and seriously Democrats and progressives who say Trump is a threat to America’s institutions and the rule of law itself.“DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose,” Routh wrote in a tweet to President Biden in April.You can’t lose if your opponent is dead — and if democracy itself is in danger, what conclusion can a desperate man of action draw?Instead of moderating their rhetoric, Trump’s critics only doubled down after the first assassination attempt.Days after the shooting, the anti-Trump Lincoln Project was again comparing Trump to Hitler.On July 19, Democratic Sen.Martin Heinrich called Trump “an existential danger to our democracy.”As recently as last week’s presidential debate, Kamala Harris accused Trump of “attacking the foundations of our democracy.”Democrats cut Trump no slack for calling on his supporters...