Second Order Effects 
The assassination attempt on Donald Trump is likely linked to the hyperbolic rhetoric calling former President Trump is a threat to Democracy, that he is a Fascist, a racist and most of all a new Hitler. This rhetoric is stated as facts, not assertions: by Joe Biden, Democrat politicians and the Main Stream Media (MSM) [i.e. MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC]. These specific accusations are a call to do anything you can to stop Trump from getting back into the White House. To put it another way, it’s the same as King James II saying: “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” To an even slightly deranged individual or serious Biden loyalist, telling them that Hitler needs to be stopped, this is putting a bullseye on President Trump.
If you told most Americans that you had a way to go back in time and kill baby Hitler. You could save millions of lives by preventing WW II. Many would likely be willing to kill that baby. So, fast forward, if you tell millions of Americans multiple times every day that President Trump is a threat to Democracy, that he is a Fascist, a racist and most of all a new Hitler; it is quite likely that one of the more deranged individuals will believe you and take action. We don’t know that the attacker in this case was inspired by this crazy rhetoric; if not this one, there are likely to be more.
Since we are talking about Hitler, he outlined his propaganda technique to move a population’s view on a topic. The technique was to tell a big lie, make it simple, say often and the people will come to believe the lie. Hitler’s technique was used by Joseph Goebbels to convince a modern, well-educated German population that it was OK to murder 8 million Jews. Today, most advertisers use the technique to sell all manner of products. But the technique continues to be used for dark purposes. Hamas uses it to convince the people of Gaza to murder Jews without remorse. The technique was used to convince people in Rwanda that they should kill all of the members on the Tutsi tribe, millions died. The Democrats and MSM use the technique every day to convince Americans that President Trump is Hitler, the evilest person that has ever lived.
The Democrats and MSM are using Hitler’s technique every day; they have a constant drumbeat of accusations (racist, threat to Democracy, Fascist, and Hitler). These are a list of accusations that everyone knows because they are constantly repeated. If you try to substantiate most of charges they make against President Trump you find they are hoaxes or mind reading.
The key to identifying hoaxes is to go to the original videos and look at the context. A great example of this is the “fine people hoax”. If you watch the press conference on YouTube (click here: watch to 13:14) you will see that President Trump didn’t support Racist groups; which is the heart of the hoax. Even after most MSM hosts have said that the “fine people hoax” statement is a hoax, the hosts rarely correct guests that cite this hoax as evidence of Trump being a racist. President Biden used this Hoax in the June 2024 debate with Trump and Biden’s Lester holt (click here:Watch to 3:15) interview in July 2024.
The mind reading occurs when an MSM hosts makes statements that sounds like facts but are their assumption about what President Trump knows and/or what he is thinking. A good example is the assertion that a comment made by Trump at a rally that illegal immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”. is Trump quoting Hitler? Experts would say that Hitler used similar words in his speaches and vaguely resemble this statement. How do they know what he is thinking, or what he has read. They can’t, it is just as possible that he is using a metaphor that describes how allowing millions of people from across the world in a totally disorganized way, without any vetting. Our ability to assimilate this many people at once is low and likely to create sub-cultures within our country that don’t understand or want to become Americans.
Many Democrats are now defending this language saying that Donald Trump and the Republicans say similar things. I’m sure one can find statements made by Trump and other Republicans that are inflammatory or in bad taste. The best example is jokes about Nancy Poliosis’s husband being attracted by a homeless man in San Francisco, totally in bad taste. The Democrats also use any political ad that includes a fire arm; Republicans are defending the Second Amendment which protects fire arms. Republicans are going to have fire arms in their ads. I have not seen a constant drum beat of calls to kill anyone on the Democrat side.
While the Republicans have their share of crazy people, it seems that most the Democrat leadership is using such inflammatory language, it’s a wonder no one has taken a shot at Donald Trump before this.