Dems send message to violent supporters: Who will rid us of this meddlesome Trump?

The second assassination attempt against Donald Trump gave us a moment of profound insight.“My father hates Trump,” said the son of the would-be assassin, “like every reasonable person does.”Who are these reasonable haters, you may ask? Let’s begin with the sitting president of the United States, Joe Biden, whose reason may be clouded by the passage of time but whose opinions on the subject are sharp enough.

According to Biden, Trump must be considered, if not exactly armed, then “dangerous,” as the leader of “an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy.” Trumpism is an “assault on democracy,” “a threat to our democracy” – in short, “semi-fascism,” the president has declared.What reasonable person would refuse to hate a semi-Mussolini?Certainly not Kamala Harris, vice president and Democratic Party candidate for the presidency.“Trump is a danger to our troops, our security, and our democracy,” Harris tells us.

The former president, Harris has said, masterminded “the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War.”What reasonable person wouldn’t hate the second coming of Jefferson Davis?Since Trump is a Republican, Democrats in general tend to score very high on the hate meter.Here’s David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign: “It is not enough to beat Trump.

He must be destroyed thoroughly.His kind must not be allowed to rise again.”Here’s Democratic congressman Dan Goldman of New York: “It is unquestionable that [Trump] cannot see public office again.

He is not only unfit, he is destructive of our democracy, and he has to be eliminated.”And let’s not forget Hilary Clinton, who in her day portrayed Trump as the headman of a ragged band of “deplorables” – “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.” More recently, Clinton warned the non-deplorable portion of the population that a Trump victory in November “would ...